6 quotes about Upbringing

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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