Philosophy has forgotten about children

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Internet, jogos de video, computadores, são úteis, mas t m destruído algo inviolável: a inf ncia. Onde está o prazer do silência? Onde está a arte da observação? Onde está a inocência? Angustia-me que o...

though they know in their adult hearts,even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bedfor his appalling behavior,that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,their wives are Dopey Dopeheadsand that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.

The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it holds for the mystery. We retain the child in us...

Kitabu cha KOLONIA SANTITA kinaweza kusomwa na watu wenye umri wa kuanzia miaka 13 na kuendelea. Katika umri wa miaka 13 fikra za mtoto huanza kuwa na maono na utambuzi wa vitu mbalimbali. Watoto katika...

For a lack of education, a child’s future may hold no fortune.

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction....

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Every child is thus affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been...

You’re not producing a whole lot of children.

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; ” that business minded people...

What are men? Children who doubt.

The toddler started making this whine/moan noise while pawing at Tabitha. I know as a woman I’m supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of...

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

Eating was still a sore point with Smriti.She failed to understand,when interesting options like mango juice or chocolates were available,why was she forced by her stupid mother to eat boring regular meals?After much contemplation,Nikhil came...

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we’re in” my poem “In a BishopsWood Clearing

Having kids and making kids are two different hobbies. I don’t have any children, but I do have lots of sex. It is an expensive hobby, but well worth the money I spend on it.

You don’t look like anyone special at all,” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.

Don’t throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns...

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

A failing grade does not denounce a child to fail in life. An IQ is what I would call an ‘inadequate question’, it may state our brain capacity or tell us how smart we are,...

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can’t do it or that you’re not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST!

It’s knowledge in terms of the self and it works wonders in children,

I’m afraid of those cows,’ protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.’The very idea of your being scared of those cows,’ scoffed Davy. ‘Why, they’re both younger than you.

We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt. “Don’t be childish, darling.” “I hope to Christ I am. Don’t...

When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed...

Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them to love, teach them to sing, and dance, teach them to be courageous, and tell them they...

Made weird children–will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

I love to teach children science.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

This nation has squandered away four years and billions of dollars in education funding. Our children have been tested to death, forced to regurgitate, and at the end of the day they haven’t learned to...

They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after. Despereaux was sure that he had read exactly those words time and time...

So now you must choose… Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it...

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn’t say any of this.

Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn’t keep track of a child’s...

If you make me lunch,” he said, “will you put it in a brown paper bag?…Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares...

We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of...

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this...

I say, “You a kind girl,” and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and...

I got my dad a great father’s Day present. He called to say: ‘Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Why are you sad?” Baby asked.”Because some day you’ll fly higher than high, and the blue will fill your eyes, and maybe you’ll forget to come down,” said Wishmoley.Baby snuggled next to him. “I’ll never...

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes — or napping, or shopping, or...

Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults...

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn’t talk?

In our school of 600 children, we have a full-time music teacher, full-time gym teacher and physical education teacher, a full-time computer teacher and a full-time Spanish teacher, therefore, it only makes sense if our...

We are telling a whole generation of women and children that their health is less important than energy companies ‘ profits,