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“English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lost Lessons Adults Slave Innocence Exploitation

Author:Germaine Greer

“Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.”

Book Young Dangerous Lessons Adults Young Adult

Author:Ned Vizzini

“The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.”

World Lessons Adults Filled Enjoyment

Author:Allen Klein

“Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Kids Responsibility Teach Dog Lessons Empathy Adults Responsible Well Being Pet Consistency Living Things Being Responsible

Author:Cesar Millan

“I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.”

People Thinking Book School Remember Reading Found Literature Crazy Lessons Discovery Adults Appreciation Curriculum School Curriculum

Author:Rachel Nichols

“This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.”

Way Years Has Beens Soul Easy Realizing Responsibility Lessons Adults Taking Responsibility Soul Searching Easy Way Lesson Learned

Author:Nicole Richie

“It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”

Children Education Responsibility Learning Lessons Adults Life Lesson Not Alone

Book:The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

“A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.”

Men Firsts States Lessons Adults Cowardice Adulthood Oath Turmoil Disillusionment Fragility

Author:Junot Diaz

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”

Should Trying Humans Children Fear Failing Middle Lessons Safe Adults Get Up Ashamed Cautious Try Again Middle Aged Shrinking Resigned

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X