“My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.” GivingChildrenLastsAbilitySkillsAdultsAimMy ChildrenLearnersHomeschooling Author:Nancy Pearcey
“The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.” MenGivingHas BeensMadeRealCoursesChristianityDemocracyWiseAchievementAdultsVoteAimImaginarySheerIdenticalHallucinations Author:H. L. Mencken
“He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.” PeopleWellsMayChildrenLittlesArtBookYoungLiteratureViewsShareObjectsShapesAdultsIntelligentAimEducatedReportersEarnestWhipsChildren's BooksWell EducatedRascalsChildren's Literature Book:Read for Your Life #18 Source: Read for Your Life #18
“Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.” MomentsWishConsciousAdultsAimIntentionPermanentDeliberateInfluential Author:John Dewey
“Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.” MotivationalLife IsJourneyAdultsAimDestinationWaking Author:Darren Hardy
“The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.” ChristianCreationInspireCapableAdultsAimTrainBelieverWitnessSurroundingsChristian HopeBearing WitnessChristian Education Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsShouldMightWantedPurposeGrewProveGrew UpAdultsAbsolutesAimCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Author:Trenton Lee Stewart
“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.” MenHumansWellsMayChildrenHandsScienceSufferingValuesCausesCommonRaceKnowledgeCrimeAdultsAimInstrumentsMiseryNobleCriminalsInsaneIdiotHuman RaceKnivesBalancedScience And ReligionDrunkardsHavocBoomerangWrong Man Author:Leo Baekeland