Ayn Rand: On what Children Need

Ayn Rand:

"The major source and demonstration of moral values available to a child is Romantic art (particularly Romantic literature). What Romantic art offers him is not moral rules, not an explicit didactic message, but the image of a moral person...It is not abstract principles that a child learns from Romantic art, but the precondition and the incentive for the later understanding of such principles: the emotional experience of admiration for man's highest potential, the experience of looking up to a hero..." The Romantic Manifesto, "Art and Moral Treason," 146-147.

I hope Rand came to see that the hero found in the Gospels is the person and place where children should look, and when looking should with childlike wonder trust Jesus who is found there.