Robert J. Havighurst famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Robert J. Havighurst famous quotes

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