At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired ...effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored..., the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly un...der crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts ab...out the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of peopl...e who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer--a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the i...dea behind foreign policy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreig...n or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to a...lmost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of... the French council.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »