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.
“Let those who choose to carve a human soul to their own measure be sure that they have a worthy image after which to carve it, and let them know that the power of molding an emerging intellect is a power of death as well as a power of life.”
– Norbert Wiener, 1953, Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth, Chapter 10: The Square Peg: Harvard, 1909-1910, p. 136
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Taking Children Seriously, ‘Quotations W’, https://takingchildrenseriously.com/quotations/