Adults Quote by Keith Johnstone

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied…

— Keith Johnstone

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are…

— Anonymous

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they…

— Philip Larkin

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it…

— Allan Bloom

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

— Nan Fairbrother

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits…

— Piers Anthony

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat…

— Adam Fletcher

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about…

— C. S. Lewis

I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I…

— Anonymous

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good,…

— Robert Greene

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films,…

— Wallace Shawn

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

— Anonymous