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Our children
will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the
spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new
life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will
resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give
them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and
fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and
suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children
into wholesale emulation of our ways.
-- June Jordan
1939-, American Poet, Civil
Rights Activist
To rescue our
children we will have to let them save us from the power we
embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they
forever personify. And we will have to allow them the
choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do
likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them,
that a little child will lead us back to the child we will
always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and
for beauty.
-- June Jordan
1939-, American Poet, Civil
Rights Activist
Children need
models rather than critics.
-- Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
Normally,
children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of
their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of
course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.
-- Louis Kaplan
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Nothing you do
for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us,
hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks,
but what we do for them is never wasted.
-- Garrison Keillor
1942-, American Humorous
Writer, Radio Performer
A child
miseducated is a child lost.
-- John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth
President of the USA
For success in
training children the first condition is to become as a
child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no
condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees
through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as
entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child
himself is absorbed by his life.
-- Ellen Key
1849-1926, Swedish Author,
Feminist
Often and
often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had
never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell
little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept
as eternally established.
-- Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of
Prose, Verse
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