I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology then its myth is...
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps you lift heavy weight as heavy as you can handle and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.