You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.
To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.
We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.
I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.
I don't want to shield kids from reality.
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.
We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.
Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
