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#child

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I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. ↗


— Jill Clayburgh


#about #birthday #birthday party #career #children

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children to believe is that people learn by experience. No greater lie was ever revered. And its falseness is immediately discerned by children since their parents obviously have not learned anything by experience. Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them. I think children instinctively know this," Ed said. "Intelligent children learn to conceal their knowledge and keep free of this howling mania. ↗


— John Steinbeck


#children #education #experience #learning #dreams

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. ↗


— Steven Chu


#baseball #basketball #children #developed #football

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. ↗


— Thomas Haden Church


#appeals #attention #attention deficit #attention span #because

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. ↗


— Maria Montessori


#correctness #educational #happiness #procedure #test

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ↗


— Maria Montessori


#child #confound #does #educator #evil

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad. ↗


— W. C. Fields


#bad #children #hates #who

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again. ↗


— W. C. Fields


#children #ever #heard #neither #seen

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. ↗


— Beverly Cleary


#changed #children #father #feelings #house

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. ↗


— Beverly Cleary


#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading






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