I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. ...It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock- scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers and others who work with children each have their own special expertise; each has something to contribute to a child's wel...l-being. The opinion of each needs to be respected. Together they can work more effectively on behalf of the child. It is not that one is right, the other wrong, that one is good, the other bad. There are no certain answers and all the information available is needed. It is time to stop looking for a villain--and it is certainly time to stop casting mothers in that role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work..., a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the largely unproductive chores of maternity is helping daughters figure out what Daddy is all about, rather than letting d...aughters experience Daddy for themselves. If men are mysterious to women, not the least reason is because mothers are the self- appointed code breakers of fathers' cryptic messages, an expertise that, at best, is so much guesswork.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areas... but looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man...'s game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »