"Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong."

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Source : David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

David Elkind

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“There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”
“I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.”
“Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.”
“It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.”
“An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.”
“There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.”

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