Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult."
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole."
Clint Eastwood
Actor, Director, Producer
"Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."
Alice Miller
Psychologist, Author
"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself."
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"There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement."
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"I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence."
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"What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business."
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"Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense."
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"Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child."
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"The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else."
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"You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand..."
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"It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war."
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"The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child."
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"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."
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"All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become."
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"The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness."
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"Adults are only kids grown up"
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"The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons"
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"Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them."
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"They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults."
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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
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"I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then."
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"I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic."
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"Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention."
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