“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.” KnowsWayChildrenMadeGrowsFitDemandAdultsBasesMethodIgnorantMade ItOperationsGears Author:Steven Biko
“I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.” PeopleIfsGivingNovelDemandAdultsProofTeensJustine Author:Justine Larbalestier
“Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.” TryingBookProcessGoalQualityCreativityCreativeMagicIntegrityDemandLosingAdultsTitlesGardeningConventionalCookeryMagic Words Author:Marilyn Ferguson
“My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.” YearsHumansPersonsMadeSimpleRaceQualitySonDemandAdultsHuman RaceMy SonResentmentVacuumsSimple Truths Author:Dorothy Dunnett
“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.” ChildrenMightAbleTogetherSportsTakenDemandAchievementPerceptionAdultsCapacityHarmContemporaryInnocentMaturityAcademicExceedCompetentParticipatingAdaptiveAcademic AchievementCompetitive Sports Author:David Elkind
“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.” YearsChildrenStatesPastSocialGoalChangeChildhoodSpecialChangedPeriodsDemandAdultsImportanceIllErasLastingTemporaryConceptionProtectedAdulthoodOver The PastUnreasonable Author:Sandra Scarr
“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.” IfsNeedsChildrenCultureCoursesIndividualSexLevelsTeachingTaughtParticularDevelopmentShapesDemandDegreesNormalStandardsExpectationsAdultsUniversalPatternsMaturityNativeCapabilityAdaptedDevelopmentalTimetables Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence
“My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.” YearsFirstsMayFilmSpiritMillionsSourceDemandAdultsFellowsFaultsCriticsDetailsCreatorWrathPottersHoveringPedantsDeparting Author:A. O. Scott
“Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.” WayTogetherReadingDemandAdultsBoundsDelightOne WayArtisticConventionalHomosexualitySensitivityVocationBourgeoisReconcile Author:Philip Kitcher
“I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. And I visit with community as frequently as possible, given the demands on me. I meet with kids. I meet with adults. I try to spend time and to listen to people talk about their lives.” PeopleTryingKidsGivenCommunityDemandAdultsIslandsEnd TimesSpend TimePuerto RicoRico Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.” WorldChildrenFunnyDemandAdultsRevengeSarcasticHalloweenFestivalsSpookyHappy HalloweenExacting RevengeFunny HalloweenScary HalloweenHalloween WishesFunny Happy HalloweenChristian HalloweenHalloween LoveHalloween And FriendsHalloween GreetingHalloween TumblrSpooky HalloweenHalloween CostumeHalloween JokesTrick Or Treat Book:America Source: America
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” KnowsLifeChildrenReasonMightHappinessDesireThreeInspiringTeachKnow HowDemandAdultsBusyHappyNo ReasonDividesBeing HappyEnjoy LifeThree ThingsTrue HappinessHappy ChildrenAlchemist LoveThrough The Eyes Of A Child Author:Paulo Coelho
“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.” ChildrenMotherTurnsCompanyComfortDemandOrdinaryAdultsFellowsAffectionSelfishHorribleSelflessOrdinary LifeHorrible Things Book:The Four Loves Source: The Four Loves
“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?” IfsKnowsHeartSeemsHeavenCasesDemandAdultsCreatorPunishmentBitterBehaveLatterTransparentCatapultsBitter Experience Author:R. A. Salvatore
“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.” WayWantNeedsMayFormMotherWishUnderstandingPsychologyDemandUnderstoodAdultsMeetingsNostalgiaViolentHookVengeanceGrudgeVengeful Author:Adam Phillips
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.” IfsChildrenCultureGrowingDyingYouthDemandAdultsHatredTerrorTerrorismChainsBreathingJudgementRefusalEcologicalHookedDisinterestedYouth Culture Author:Midge Decter