What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
Interpretation
A child's independent actions reveal their true character and personality.
This quote emphasizes the idea that the actions a child chooses to take when they are not being instructed provide deep insights into their true nature and individuality. It suggests that freedom to act on their own allows children to express their values, preferences, and potential, highlighting the importance of autonomy in their development.
In practice
In a parenting workshop to illustrate the importance of independent play.
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as βChristiansβ will become disciples β students, apprentices, practitioners β of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can_x000D_ give an account of it, who know so much of history that_x000D_ they can defend it.
Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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