Activist Quote by Laurence Steinberg

Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of…

— Laurence Steinberg

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

— James S. Coleman

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no…

— Laurence Steinberg

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you…

— Solange Knowles

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most…

— James S. Coleman

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

— Laurence Steinberg

Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have…

— James McAvoy

Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped…

— Terri E Apter

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if…

— Robert Bly

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

— Seneca the Younger

“Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition, of distinguishing…

— Jonathan Berent

An adolescent does not rebel against his parents. He rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on non-power…

— Thomas Gordon