recent study testing brain activity found that the brain is most active when the subject is telling a story. As award-winning children’s author Philip Pullman puts it: “All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions. . . . Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
