Here’s how others view the value of the fairy tales as a reference point for framing a problem you’re trying to solve. As is often the case, some of these will be thought-provoking, and some will amuse:

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- C. S. Lewis

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- G. K. Chesterton

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time… now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.
- Carolyn Warner

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
- Amy Tan

If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairly tales.
If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
- Francis Ford Coppola

And one more. This sounded like something out of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale, in a way:

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
- Francis Ford Coppola