"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."

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Source : The Century of the Child Ch. 3

Ellen Key

#Children Quotes #Real Quotes #Rose Quotes

“When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.”
“Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.”
“One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.”
“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”
“It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.”

Source : Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS.”
“The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.”
“The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.”

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