Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
Interpretation
Children benefit from having relationships with both peers and adults for guidance and support.
This quote emphasizes the importance of children's social development by highlighting that they need connections not only with their family and peers but also with mature individuals. Such grown-up friendships can provide wisdom, support, and a different perspective, enriching the childβs experience of the world around them.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage parental involvement in a child's education.
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.
No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.
They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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