Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of n...ecessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For decades child development experts have erroneously directed parents to sing with one voice, a unison chorus of values, politic...s, disciplinary and loving styles. But duets have greater harmonic possibilities and are more interesting to listen to, so long as cacophony or dissonance remains at acceptable levels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to dis...tinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won...'t amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty,... Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; As much as child e'er loved, or father found, A love that makes breath poor and speech unable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it w...as a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I really don't think this war will end soon. We are completely aware of the difficulties, no food or fuel, the danger, but we want... to be stronger than all that. With each child, we are fighting back with our love of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »