"Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children"

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Source : Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.159, Beacon Press

Alfie Kohn

#Children Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.”
“Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.”

Source : "When Things Start to Think". Book by Neil Gershenfeld, www.cnn.com. 1998.
“The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.”
“Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.”
“God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.55, Ignatius Press
“Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.104, Pan Macmillan
“Sometimes I talk, I say things, and I'm like, 'Maybe this won't happen, but I'm going to make myself believe it.'”
“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.”

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