Authority Quote by John Broadbent

Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are…

— John Stuart Mill

“Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.”

— John Irving

“Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by distance or…

— Leland Ryken

“The child understood vaguely that in taking up literature, he had entered a domain where he could rely on nothing beyond himself. ”

— Anonymous

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

— Robert Hass

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of…

— William Stolzenburg

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

— Carsten Jensen

“The job of the parent is not to impose his or her will on the child, but to get the child to listen to…

— Shmuley Boteach

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert