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[Quote No.40074] Need Area: Friends > Children
"One of the great privileges of being a parent is witnessing, close up, the flourishing of a young mind. But that's not the only benefit. In trying to make the world a more interesting and comprehensible place for their child, parents often find their own intellectual interests rekindled." - Michael Schulman
U.S. psychologist and author. Quote from 'Great Minds Start With Questions,' in 'Parents Magazine' (September 1993).
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[Quote No.40075] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Those that do teach young babes,
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks." - William Shakespeare
(1564–1616), British dramatist and poet. Quote from Desdemona, in 'Othello', act 4, sc. 2, l. 111-2.
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[Quote No.40076] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster." - William Shakespeare
(1564–1616), British dramatist and poet. Quote from Lear, in 'King Lear', act 1, sc. 4, l. 259-61.
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[Quote No.40077] Need Area: Friends > Children
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child." - William Shakespeare
(1564–1616), British dramatist and poet. Quote from Lear, in 'King Lear', act 1, sc. 4, l. 268-9 (1623).
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[Quote No.40078] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When I was away from home and missing my children, I asked myself why I didn't show my approval and enjoyment of them more when I was with them, when it would do them — and me — a lot of good." - Benjamin Spock
U.S. pediatrician and author. Quote from 'What Makes a Satisfying Christmas for Children and their Parents,' in 'Redbook Magazine' (December 1981).
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[Quote No.40079] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been...Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not." - Laurence Steinberg
U.S. professor of psychology. Quote from 'You and Your Adolescent', ch. 1 (1990).
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[Quote No.40081] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Unconditional parental love:] I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child." - Rabindranath Tagore
(1861–1941), Indian Nobel Prize winning author. Quote from 'The Crescent Moon' in 'The Judge', (1913).
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[Quote No.40082] Need Area: Friends > Children
"No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society." - Jeremy Taylor
(1613–1667), British churchman and devotional writer. Quote from 'Twenty-Seven Sermons', Sermon 18 (1651).
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[Quote No.40083] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There is a delicate balance of putting yourself last and not being a doormat and thinking of yourself first and not coming off as selfish, arrogant, or bossy. We spend the majority of our lives attempting to perfect this balance. When we are successful, we have many close, healthy relationships. When we are unsuccessful, we suffer the natural consequences of damaged and sometimes broken relationships. Children are just beginning their journey on this important life lesson." - Cindy L. Teachey
Quote from 'Building Lifelong Relationships—School Age Programs at Work,' Child Care Exchange (January 1994).
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[Quote No.40089] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The more I read and the more I talked to other parents of children with disabilities and normal children, the more I found that feelings and emotions about children are very much the same in all families. The accident of illness or disability serves only to intensify feelings and emotions, not to change them." - Judith Weatherly
U.S. editor and writer. Quote from 'Meeting Parental Needs, A Never-ending Dilemma,' in 'The Exceptional Parent' (October 1984).
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[Quote No.40090] Need Area: Friends > Children
"In their sympathies, children ...frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for." - Jessamyn West
(1907–1984), U.S. novelist and autobiographer. Quote from 'The Life I Really Lived', part 1 (1979).
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[Quote No.40091] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The child is father of the man [or mother of the woman]." - William Wordsworth
(1770–1850), British poet. Quote from 'My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold', (written 1802, published 1807).
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[Quote No.40092] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is the responsibility of every adult —especially parents, educators... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and they are not alone." - Marian Wright Edelman
U.S. author. Quote from 'The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Child and Yours', II, p. 15 (1992).
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[Quote No.40104] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
" - Bruce Barton
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[Quote No.40187] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child." - Charles Handy
(1932 - ), Social Philosopher and Management Consultant
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[Quote No.40360] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things." - Bible
I Corinthians
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[Quote No.40420] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I have to admit, I truly started to appreciate life when I had kids... I get to relive my childhood all over again, through my kids. I get to do things that I wish I could have done when I was a kid, and I get to see my kids smile because we do things together. " - Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
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[Quote No.40431] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Self-Worth Comes from Solving Worthy Problems! ...
When people wrestle with problems 'worthy of attack', they may feel overwhelmed, and they may even occasionally be defeated. But it is only by combating formidable opponents that people can truly [develop and] demonstrate their power and potency.
The value of worthy problems applies especially well to the raising of children. Many parents attempt to shield their children from the problems they experienced when they were young. But, often as not, it was facing and ultimately overcoming those very problems that made them strong and capable adults. The Swedish writer Ellen Key was thinking along these lines when she wrote:
'At every step, the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses'." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.40433] Need Area: Friends > Children
"At every step, the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses." - Ellen Key
Swedish writer
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[Quote No.40468] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you." - Anne Lamott
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[Quote No.40512] Need Area: Friends > Children
"With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth ...
" - Gao Xingjian
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 2000
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[Quote No.40652] Need Area: Friends > Children
"...when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty...all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart!" - Albert Camus
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40660] Need Area: Friends > Children
"People, especially young people, need compliments and admiration. We must give them a sense of their importance and dignity, and we must encourage them to use and develop all their talents!" - Mairead Corrigan
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1976
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[Quote No.40662] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I’ve written maybe thirty books, I don’t remember exactly; but I have five children, and that is my real blessing." - Knut Hamsun
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1920
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[Quote No.40663] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
" - Nelson Mandela
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1993
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[Quote No.40664] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he [or she] will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love [someone or something profoundly] means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfilment.
" - Pearl S. Buck
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1938
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[Quote No.40665] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth [with few of the adult human civil rights and liberties based on equal access to facts or freedom. Knowing this should help us understand, be more compassionate and do everything in our power to prepare them for those adult powers and responsibilities as soon as they are individually capable].
" - Toni Morrison
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993
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[Quote No.40673] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed [and make them less capable, independent and free]!" - Bertrand Russell
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950
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[Quote No.40678] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If we fail to teach our children the skills they need to think clearly [i.e. thought that is independent, imaginative, sceptical, fact-based, logical, consequential, empathetic, justice-based], they will march behind whatever guru wears the shiniest cloak [regardless of where it leads, even if it is to eventual poverty, slavery, war and death]." - Paul Boyer
winner Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1997
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[Quote No.40700] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education [parenting, ethics, social philosophy, spirituality and politics]." - Albert Einstein
winner Nobel Prize for Physics, 1921
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[Quote No.40720] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry; for the delicate little plant [of curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom [to play-explore, guess-hypothesize, try-experiment, fail, discover – results and refine-conclude]; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail!" - Albert Einstein
winner Nobel Prize for Physics, 1921
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[Quote No.40749] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Probably the most important thing my parents did to encourage me [to grow mentally] was to NOT get a television. We lived way out in the woods and once a week we would drive into town (nearly an hour away) to buy groceries. On those trips my parents always took us to the public library. [With books and without television we then had the time and mental space to read and develop our imaginations.]
" - Carl Wieman
winner Nobel Prize for Physics, 2001
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[Quote No.41201] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme." - Aaron Hill
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[Quote No.41439] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[A poem:]
'Children'
Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me,
Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows,
And the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,
In your thoughts the brooklet's flow,
But in mine is the wind of Autumn,
And the first fall of the snow.
Ah! what would the world be to us,
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us,
Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are to the forest,
With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices,
Have been hardened into wood, --
That to the world are children;
Through them it feels the glow,
Of a brighter and sunnier climate,
Than reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, O ye children!
And whisper in my ear,
What the birds and the winds are singing,
In your sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness of your looks?
Ye are better than all the ballads,
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.
" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Quote No.41445] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years." - Graham Greene
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[Quote No.41448] Need Area: Friends > Children
"To be adult is to be [able to be responsible and capable to meet your own needs] alone." - Jean Rostand
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[Quote No.41490] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children do live in fantasy [imagination] and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we [or at least most of us] no longer remember how to do." - Maurice Sendak
(1928 - 2012)
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[Quote No.41496] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Education [and therefore the equal opportunity for education] then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men [and women, regardless of their initial circumstances], the balance-wheel of the social machinery! [It above all else, allows people to make the most of themselves and their dreams, for the good of all, in a free society that, by supporting individual property rights, allows, encourages and incentivises them to profit from their efforts.]" - Horace Mann
(1796 - 1859), famous American lawyer, politician and then educational administrator.
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[Quote No.41501] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power." - Horace Mann
(1796 - 1859), famous American lawyer, politician and then educational administrator.
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[Quote No.41513] Need Area: Friends > Children
"One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to society - is to read to children." - Carl Sagan
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[Quote No.41562] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[As your mother] Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave, I will always carry you in my heart." - Mandy Harrison
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[Quote No.41563] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A mother [or father] is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." - Washington Irving
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[Quote No.41641] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men [and women]." - Pythagoras
(circa 582 BC – circa 496 BC), Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
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[Quote No.41791] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived." - Margaret A. Edwards
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[Quote No.41822] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Many politicians [and parents] are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people [or children] ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." - Thomas Macaulay
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[Quote No.41843] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility [because they have never been taught how to handle it. This is a problem with our education system, which has been set up to teach children and people to work well rather than to live wonderful free lives, which includes making great contributions to society through their work-service in the society]." - Sigmund Freud
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[Quote No.41919] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Freedom begins as we become conscious of it!" - Vernon Howard
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[Quote No.41951] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Education is a human right [or at the very least, vital from the point of all of our enlightened self-interests, because of its]...immense power to transform [people into their better selves, so they are even more capable of contributing to society and managing their own lives better]! On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development [for us all, now and in the future, as history has shown so clearly]." - Kofi Annan
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[Quote No.41954] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom!" - Thomas B. Macaulay
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[Quote No.42181] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Discipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined." - Maria Montessori
Famous educator
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