"Parents - and teachers too - are woefully……" — Sydney J. Harris

"Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another."

— Sydney J. Harris

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