Rebecca Goldstein Quotes About Children
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A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.
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Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.
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In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.
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I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.
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And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.
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What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
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The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.
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What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.
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