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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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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. – Lyman Abbott

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Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail — traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. – Dr.SunWolf, 2011 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. – Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

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What is a home without children? Quiet. – Henny Youngman

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