Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes thr...ough our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility ...in preserving it coolly and proudly through a long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness..LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,... And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: the welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someday soon, we hope that all middle and high school will have required courses in child rearing for girls and boys to help prepa...re them for one of the most important and rewarding tasks of their adulthood: being a parent. Most of us become parents in our lifetime and it is not acceptable for young people to be steeped in ignorance or questionable folklore when they begin their critical journey as mothers and fathers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black chil...dren without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to mak...e it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,... and institutions. Yet today's young people are no more mature or capable of handling the increased conflicting and often stimulating information they receive than were young people of the past, who received the information and had more adult control of and advice about the information they did receive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your fu...ture, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy. . . ." Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy--act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition and... cooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »