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“Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development”

Children Country Whole Lying Waiting Silence Millions Fields Development Weapons Obstacles Innocent Village Buried Livelihood Cultivation Reconstruction Landmines

Author:Kofi Annan

“I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.”

Thinking Children Stories Influence Style Development Mythology Inevitable Fairytale Folklore Small Child

Author:Juliet Marillier

“It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems?”

Want Wells Children Important Process Known Development Mature Well Known Delay Immune Immune System Milestone Measles

Book:Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System

Source: Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System

“Failing to provide children adequate access to nutritious food not only endangers their emotional, physical and mental development, but it also puts all aspects of their future well-being at risk. The costs are too high when you short-change children.”

Wells Children Failing Risk Emotional Development Cost Aspect Access Well Being Adequate

Author:Jane Bown

“Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.”

Kind Children Humanity Nature Awareness Development Reverence Wholeness

Author:Rachel Carson

“Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.”

Should Children Growth Responsibility Childhood Development Periods Adults Program Preparation Pockets Expansion Emergencies Adaptation Private Life

Author:Grace Abbott

“With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.”

Should Mind May Children Problem Growing Economic Development Adults Curiosity Openness Devoted Manhood Sympathetic Coping Economic Problems Unbiased Responsiveness

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.”

Ifs Children Desire Development Activity Stimulus Posse

Author:Maria Montessori

“Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.”

Children Fall Growth Freedom Possibility Particular Development Highest Favors Fixed Unfree

Book:Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order

“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