Childhood Quote by Alice Miller

“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression may have…

— Alice Miller

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it…

— Alice Miller

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to…

— Sigmund Freud

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

— Plutarch

“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud, Ellis, Dreiser,…

— Paul Goodman

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself.…

— Maria Montessori

For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a fact that…

— Alice Miller

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads…

— Henry Giroux

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum…

— Janet Robertson

Children become what they are told they are.

— Dorothy DeLay