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2. “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.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Learning, Children, Adults, Forced Education, Natural Gifts
4. “Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children – and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.” George Bernard Shaw Affection, Adult Vs Child, Social Insight, Affection, Children, Adults
7. “They never say to you, ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead, they demand ‘How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?’ Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Judgment, Perception, Childhood, Adults, Questions, Understanding
14. “I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.” J.K. Rowling Publishing, Children, Adults, Creativity, Flexibility
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2. “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.”
Rabindranath Tagore Learning, Children, Adults, Forced Education, Natural Gifts
4. “Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children – and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.”
George Bernard Shaw Affection, Adult Vs Child, Social Insight, Affection, Children, Adults
7. “They never say to you, ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead, they demand ‘How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?’ Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Judgment, Perception, Childhood, Adults, Questions, Understanding
14. “I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.”
J.K. Rowling Publishing, Children, Adults, Creativity, Flexibility
