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“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age”

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Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.”

Knows Children Peace Justice Millions Five Modern One Day Cost Hundred Warfare Shortage Did You Know Modern Warfare

Author:Peter Ustinov

“We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.”

Men Children Stills Two Ends Country Home Jobs Can Do Modern Men And Women Raised Two Jobs

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.”

Thinking Children Littles Enjoy Company Virtue Too Much Modern Negative Importance Educational Merit Interfere Theorists

Book:In praise of idleness: and other essays

Source: In praise of idleness: and other essays

“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”

Children Wonder Modern Morality Entertainment Tales Incidents Disagreeable Modern Education

Book:The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)

Source: The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)

“Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.”

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Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.”

Firsts Children Natural Behinds Modern Physics Mathematical Biology Chemistry Natural Science Retarded

Author:Michael Crichton

“With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!”

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Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.”

“We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.”