Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that children are not blank slates to be filled with adult preferences; they have their own identities.
Khaled Hosseini's quote reflects the idea that children are unique individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, and preferences. Instead of imposing our desires on them, we should nurture their individuality and allow them to explore their own paths, understanding that personal growth comes from within rather than through external influence.
In practice
During a parent-teacher meeting to discuss child development.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
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