“All children are morbid: it s their one saving grace.”
“A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.”
“It doesn t matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful stuff but it s the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves.”
“Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.”
“Poor little lambs,’ says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can’t be named.” Pastel Orphans”
“Children observe everything with caution.”
“Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!”
“Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from their regular nature and at some point, crossed over to the less-than-ideal state. If deviating form perfection was the law of nature, why were children expected to be perfect in an imperfect world?”