“Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.” PeopleMindFactsPainFormFatherGrowsOpinionBoysGrowing UpYouthSonCapacityMereAcceptedPhrasesSubstitutesIncapableNo Pain Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography
“The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.” KnowsMenFormLawFoundGivenCommunityBoysDivineHe ManPromiseConceptsOriginalsGuiltAcceptedGuiltyMost PowerfulPrimitiveFoundersRebirth Author:Martin Buber
“Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.” IfsKnowsKidsFormValuesChoicesGirlIndividualDifferencesBoysMoralityTruth IsAbuseDefinedRelativeRecipesHarassmentBoy And GirlPhysical AbuseRelative TruthIndividual Choice Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.” IfsShouldSchoolFormOrderSpeakProcessInterestClassBoysTeacherSucceedAccountsMathematicsPsychologicalAbstractPsychicsPresentationSystematicDiplomatsUpper Class Author:Felix Klein
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.” MenWayKindMeanArtWarFormPoliticalCoursesBoysEconomyHellTelevisionIndustrySpeechMessagesSakeNewspapersPrincipalGrandchildrenColumnsBattlefieldsPolitical SpeechesMerchandising Book:Bluebeard: A Novel Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.” NeedsShouldSeemsFormGirlBoysClothesLovelyNakedAdmireCoveredCovered Up Book:The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll Source: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.” HumansFormJoyBitsBoysStruggleCrazySeriousOceanMajorsRiversStrategyBraveMemoirStorytellingInstanceProse Author:Lidia Yuknavitch