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“It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.”

Term Attitude Break Taken Adults Who I Am

Book:True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

Source: True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

“In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.”

Children Certain Belief Attitude Type Development Circumstances Intellectual Adults Importance Experiments Former Acquire Cooperating Intellectual Development

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.”

“Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet today's young people are no more mature or capable of handling the increased conflicting and often stimulating information they receive than were young people of the past, who received the information and had more adult control of and advice about the information they did receive.”

People Way Children Different Today Past Young Values Social Attitude Advice Information Conflict Capable Adults Institutions Mature Social Network

Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.”

“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.”

“The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.”

Persons Stills Attitude Cases Adults Correlation Keep Learning Changing Attitude Rare Person

Author:Keith Henson

“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.”

“The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.”

Ifs Kids Attitude Watches Five Policy Adults Resources Vote Population Agency Target

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.”

Ifs Attitude Policy Adults Population Target

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'”

Knows Important Certain Attitude Adults Skins Opposites Longing Beer Wrinkles

Author:Robert Bly

“Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.”

People Writing Done Feelings Able Young My Own Attitude Fantasy Adults Deepest Feelings

Author:Lloyd Alexander