I think it is a tremendous loss to a child to grow up in a family without conversation. Naturally, there are always trivial things, plans and details to be talked over. But there should be general discussion of ideas as well, of the fantastic things that are happening all over the world, of new discoveries in science and archaeology, of local or distant problems and their possible solution, of anything that keeps before the child the realization that life is an exciting business, that it is to be approached in a spirit of adventure.
