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“What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.”

Thinking Knows Values Theory Adults Function Population Publishing Publishers

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.”

Firsts Children Art Done Beautiful Values Creation Source Art Is Adults Artistic Things Done Small Child Artistic Creation

Author:Franz Cizek

“Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.”

Source: The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History

“There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.”

Years Firsts Mean Children Ideas Certain Values Force Support Economic Essentials Adults Function Sexuality Primaries Dependence Norm Reproduction Orderly Disruptive Socialization

Author:Adrian Wilson

“I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.”

Believe Wells Book Kids Values I Believe Adults Entitled Redeeming

Author:R. L. Stine

“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.”

Thinking Way Trying Children Able Lying Values Parent Childhood Adults Difficulty Convinced Bunch Tales Related Fairy Fairy Tale

Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.”

“Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet today's young people are no more mature or capable of handling the increased conflicting and often stimulating information they receive than were young people of the past, who received the information and had more adult control of and advice about the information they did receive.”

People Way Children Different Today Past Young Values Social Attitude Advice Information Conflict Capable Adults Institutions Mature Social Network

Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project