"If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill."

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Source : David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.36, Da Capo Press

David Elkind

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“Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.”
“Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!”
“Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.”
“Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.”
“Reality is all that which can affect one.”
“But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.”
“Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.”
“We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.”

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