Adults Quotes

The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.