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How sharper
than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
In all our
efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced
the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and
over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''
-- Eda J. Le Shan
1922-, American Educator,
Author
You save an
old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a
multiplication table.
-- Gypsy Smith
What's more
enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't
hear what they say?
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American
Essayist, Aphorist
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The more
people have studied different methods of bringing up
children the more they have come to the conclusion that what
good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for
their babies is the best after all.
-- Benjamin Spock
1903-, American Pediatrician
There are few
places outside his own play where a child can contribute to
the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by
adults who tell him what to do and when to do it
--benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their ''good''
subjects and punishment to their ''bad'' ones, who are
amused at the ''cleverness'' of children and annoyed by
their ''stupidities.''
-- Viola Spolin
1911-, American Theatrical
Director, Producer
Children are
the keys of paradise.
-- Richard Henry Stoddard
1825-1903, American Critic,
Poet
I have been
assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in
London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a
year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food,
whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no
doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a
ragout.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
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