Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.

Arnold Glasow

Do not train youth the learn by harshness, but lead them to it by what amuses their minds. Then you may discover the peculiar bent of genius of each

Plato

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Harry Edwards

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

So many schools, so many rules, and books, and ways to train the mind, when what we really need to win, is a powerful will and a goal to find.

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