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Every time we teach children something, rather than helping them learn, we keep them from inventing themselves.
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065 |
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The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children’s accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure.
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309 |
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It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can’t afford to be wrong.
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310 |
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When you expect your employees to act like adults, they generally do. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
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080 |
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…the most important lesson to teach children is that learning is fun.
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168 |
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Children pay attention to our attention: where we focus tells them what we prize.
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173 |
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…peer influence and community influence are more important than family influence in determining how children turn out.
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167 |
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Growing up in a single-parent home roughly doubles a child’s propensity to commit crime. So does having a teenage mother.
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139 |
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To breed children for a world of split focus is to raise generations who will have ceded cognitive control of their days.
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092 |
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If we are to create a joyful society rich in cooperation, we must especially liberate our children from the panoptic gaze.
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150 |
