Quote by James Agee
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. – James Agee

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I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee

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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. – Stacia Tauscher

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Jones

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Children make you want to start life over. – Muhammad Ali

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Most of the people who will walk behind me will be children so make the beat keep time with short steps. – Hans Christian Andersen

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