A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
Interpretation
Children need to develop a sense of self-worth and capability from an early age.
This quote emphasizes the importance of instilling confidence and self-esteem in children from a young age. It suggests that recognizing their own value and potential is crucial for their personal development and future accomplishments. By learning to appreciate themselves and their abilities, children are more likely to pursue their goals and contribute positively to society.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote during a speech to encourage parents on the importance of nurturing self-esteem in children.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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