Quotes by Gramsci, Antonio

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before an >>

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. >>

I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm >>

Quotations about Adolescence

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds >>

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which th >>

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prev >>

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?

Gramsci, Antonio