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One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent's job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work.
― Urie Bronfenbrenner
Jobs
Children
Past
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.
― Urie Bronfenbrenner
Children
Motivation
Opportunity
Urie Bronfenbrenner
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.
― Urie Bronfenbrenner
Children
Responsibility
Adults
Urie Bronfenbrenner
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Children
Creativity
Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
― Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Baby
Children
Heart
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.
― Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Country
Children
Reading
Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.
― Usher
Children
Giving
Important
Usher
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
― Usher
Children
Philosophy
Adults
Usher
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
― Timothy Keller
Timothy Keller
Kings
Children
Glasses
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Teacher
Children
Teaching
So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.
― Thomas S. Monson
Thomas S. Monson
Children
Believe
Reality
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Children
Trouble
MyTime
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
― Stephen Hawking
Children
Asking
Answers
Stephen Hawking
Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.
― Stephen Colbert
Funny
Trust
Children
Stephen Colbert
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
― Terence McKenna
Children
Pain
Moving
Terence McKenna
I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.
― Shakira
Children
Believe
Keys
Shakira
Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.
― Shakira
Children
Differences
LifeAndDeath
Shakira
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
― Anaïs Nin
Children
Real
Lying
Anais Nin
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
― Al-Ghazali
Mother
Wisdom
Children
Al-Ghazali
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
― Ann Landers
Inspirational
Children
WiseParents
Ann Landers
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