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- Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we…
- To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.
- A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow…
- We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them,…
- What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better…
- By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a child, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster