Adults Quote by Steven Biko

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

— Mariella Frostrup

“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation while being…

— Robert Trivers

It is the duty of the parents to ensure the children don't fall prey to societal pressures.

— M. K. Stalin

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works…

— Maria Montessori

Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason…

— Lionel Trilling

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

— Maria Montessori

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it…

— Laura Moriarty

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful.…

— Kevin Kelly

“Children parented in such a manner never come up against the necessary frustration that accompanies facing the impossible. They are deprived of the experience…

— Gordon Neufeld

It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.

— Future