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

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