“There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.” ChildrenSpeciesTendencies Author:Hugh Lofting
“If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.” IfsWorldWellsChildrenGrowthOur LivesSeaBabySucceedClaimsDisappointmentGuidesRageShipsTendenciesDespiteChairsLastingAdulthoodBehaviourSavagesEquilibriumExhaustionExteriorSmall ChildHystericalImbalanceManiaDisappointment Love Author:Alain de Botton
“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.” IfsThinkingChildrenSufferingEvilGrowsPoorGrowing UpConditionsShadowAbuseTendenciesEducatedCollectivesManifestHumiliatedDiabolicalInhumane Author:Deepak Chopra
“The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.” HumansChildrenCharacterIndividualSpaceGraceTendenciesFormulasMediocritySheepOblivionHatefulSystematicHuman SocietyStumpsPopular Education Author:N. C. Wyeth