E) Comment on the statements below.

1. In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

2. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St Vincent Millay

3. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

4. A child is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Monsignor Ronald Kuox

5. Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

6. When children are doing nothing they are doing mischief.

H. Fielding

7. Teach your child to hold his tongue and he will learn to speak fast.

B. Franklin

8. Anger is never without a reason, but seldom without a good one.

B. Franklin

9. If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Goethe

10. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

A. Huxley

11. Children begin by loving parents, as they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them.

O. Wilde

12. One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell

13. A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

ThomasSzasz

14. If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George B.Shaw

15. I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

H. Rap Brown

16. Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

17. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

18. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Bible

19. Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

20. The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say: “Willie is no good; I’ll sell him”.

Stephen Leacock

21. Parents love their children more than children love their parents.

Auctoritates Aristotelis

22. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

Francis Bacon

23. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Francis Bacon

24. Oh, what a tangled Web do parent weave

When they think that their children are naïve.

Ogden Wash

25. Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever

imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

26. The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their

children.

Edward VIII

28. “It takes a long time to grow young”.

Picasso

29. “Creative thinkers make many false starts, and continually waver between unmanageable fantasies and systematic attack”.

Harry Hepner

30. “By the time the child can draw more than a scribble, by age three or four years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoiled drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

Psychologist, Karl Buhler

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