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Michael Gurian has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task,…
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Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like…
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful…
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The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not…
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As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing…
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Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.
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Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys…
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If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who…
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One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of…
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Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the…
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Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.
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The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.
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Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a…
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If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who…
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The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]
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All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my…
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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
— Mark Twain
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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that…
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A modern day warrior mean mean stride, today's Tom Sawyer mean mean pride.
— Rush
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Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and…
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