"You can't teach children to be good. The……" — Bruno Bettelheim
"You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on."
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Bruno Bettelheim
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17 Quotes by Bruno Bettelheim
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to…
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
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The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
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The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
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The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not…
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The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be…
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What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from…
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children…
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Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
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Creativity stands at the center of all education.
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Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically…
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