Activity Quote by Eda LeShan

“We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts ...”

Eda LeShan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Activity Busy Children Danger Generations Improving Our children People Silence Terrified Young Young people

More by Eda LeShan

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Eda LeShan

Image

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become…

Eda LeShan

Image

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

Eda LeShan

Image

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Eda LeShan

Image

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

Eda LeShan

Image

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

Eda LeShan

Image

If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having…

Eda LeShan

Image

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

Eda LeShan

Image

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in…

Eda LeShan

Image

If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully…

Eda LeShan

Image

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our…

Eda LeShan

Image

Sex is something we are, not something we do.

Eda LeShan

Image

Explore all 33 Eda LeShan quotes

More Activity quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

Pope Leo XIII

Image

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Plato

Image

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people…

Mohsin Hamid