Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-Albert Einstein.
My son Tom and I have read "The Chronicles of Narnia" series (by C.S. Lewis) at the same time and sometimes together. I found that this was the easiest way to be able to test him on the material that he read and help prepare him for the computerized tests that he was required to take in school, after reading each book.
Read the series. Even as an adult, I amazed at Lewis' ability to marry so many great concepts of imagination, parallels of Christianity, physics, good and evil, etc. across the 7 books.
We have spent hours and hours discussing things such as the time continuum, Einsteins theory, as it relates the book. The thing is, I really have not talked to him much about what the theory says. Instead, asking him many guided questions about how the children in the books, leave our world, spend many years in Narnia, helping Aslan, then going back to our world as if no time has passed at all.
The following article is a great kind of "Summation" of it.
I am so proud of the boy.
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