"I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring."
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"My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children."
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"The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth."
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"In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit."
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"Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right."
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"For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves."
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"He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne."
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"Shee spins well that breedes her children."
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"The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire."
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"The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish."
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"To a child all weather is cold."
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"Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children."
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"When children stand quiet, they have done some ill."
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"The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children."
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"A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well."
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"A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child."
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"Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off."
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"Building and marrying of Children are great wasters."
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"A child correct behind and not before."
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"Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse."
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