In case it is not obvious, whilst many of these quotations are consistent with Taking Children Seriously, many of them are not. Sometimes it is just interesting that that person said it, or it is interesting for some other reason.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
– Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dahlberg, first Baron Acton), Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton, 1904, ‘Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, vol. 1, ch. 13
“[M]any adults look back on their school years as a sort of nightmare.”
– Alfred Adler, 1930, The Education of Children, Introduction, p. 11
Return to alphabetical index of Quotations pages
Taking Children Seriously, ‘Quotations A’, https://takingchildrenseriously.com/quotations-a