Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job than... they have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that th...ey won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what... from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its ti...mes of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think men respect women ... [ellipsis in original] I don't think they really respect their opinions. I don't think they re...ally respect their ability to do a job. And, therefore, when it comes to the business of hiring somebody, they're always sort of hanging back and suspicious whether the woman would actually be able to do it. Meantime, these people that are doing this to you are people that you swamped when you were going through school. I don't mean that in a bitter way. I mean this is a fact of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Glance in the mirror, and you see a person who doesn't "look like a grandparent." But listen to your inner urges and you will find... that your "grandparent hunger," your biological need to be a grandparent and to do the best job possible in that vital role, is as insistent as it has been for all people in all places and in all times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very fact that you don't look or act or feel like the grandparents of even a generation ago does not mean that you are less, b...ut that you are more--in effect, an evolved form of grandparents, primed to do a bigger and more challenging job than any group before you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a p...ecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen.... It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in... that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »