"Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys"

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Source : Michael Gurian (2000). “The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men”, p.53, Penguin

Michael Gurian

#Children Quotes #Boys Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.”
“Player for player, thereâ€™s â€¨no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.”
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
“We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.”
“I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.”

Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.10, Cosimo Classics
“It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.”
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.”
“So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”

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