How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
Interpretation
Teaching children about the joy of giving fosters a sense of appreciation and generosity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of instilling the values of generosity and giving in children. It suggests that the true pleasure in life is found not in what we receive, but in what we give to others, thereby cultivating a spirit of kindness and empathy in the next generation.
In practice
During a parenting workshop, I shared this quote to highlight the importance of teaching generosity.
The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
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It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
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Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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