Children Elements

Famous quotes containing the words children and/or elements:

“Today’s pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a changed perception of precocity. Several decades ago precocity was looked upon with great suspicion. The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult; thus the phrase “early ripe, early rot!””
—David Elkind (20th century)

“But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)