Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

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Topic

Teaching children Parents and children Cultivating independence

Author

Roger Lewin

Source

The Saturday Review

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lewin, Roger. "Observing the Brain Through a Cat's Eyes." The Saturday Review, 5 Oct. 1974.

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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

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Topic
Sexual revolution Men and women

Author

Midge Decter
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.

Another quote about Parents and children

For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

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Topic
Raising kids Parents and children Power of education Value of education

Author

William Ross Wallace
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wallace, William Ross. What Rules the World. 1865.

Current Citation

Wallace, William Ross. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle." Poetry for a Lifetime: All-Time Favorite Poems to Delight and Inspire All Ages, edited by Samuel Norfleet Etheredge. MiraVista Press, 1999.