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“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

Should Mind Children Doe Play Body Form Teaching Exercise Lessons Elements Slavery Harm Your Children Compulsion Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Plato

“If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.”

Ifs Firsts Children Important Country Natural Tree Duty Elements Resources Our Children Forests Conservation Natural Resources

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.”

Ifs World Way Giving Mind Wells Children Made Sometimes Sex Water Poor Struggle Habit Walking Elements Independent Males Dare Beloved Thrown Adam Trust Me Wrecks Infancy Beloved Friends

Author:Frances Wright

“I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Children Long Action Life Is Suffering Humanity Interest Can Do Existence Consciousness Elements Endure Ill Miserable Protest Favour Foresight

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.”

Should Children Natural Moral Elements Stress Lays Motive Spheres Domain Tangible Realist

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.”

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Author:Mark Ruffalo