Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
Margaret HalseyRead
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that social mobility isn't just about climbing the financial ladder; it can also involve ethical considerations, and movement can occur in various directions.
Margaret Halsey's quote challenges the conventional notion of upward social mobility, suggesting that the pursuit of success should not solely focus on financial gains. Instead, it highlights the importance of ethical growth and acknowledges that one's journey can also lead to downward movements in values or morality, inviting a broader understanding of what it means to progress in society.
Themes
Social MobilityEthical GrowthSuccessFinancial MobilityDirection
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the true measures of success in society, I might quote, 'The stress laid on upward social mobility...'
More from Margaret Halsey
All quotes →Similar quotes
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl MarxRead
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
John FowlesRead
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Samuel JohnsonRead
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.
Walter BenjaminRead
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the_x000D_ chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.
Milton FriedmanRead
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
T. S. EliotRead