Providing Material Support

Famous quotes containing the words providing, material and/or support:

    “Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
    —Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

    “Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
    —Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)

    “Children learn to care by experiencing good care. They come to know the blessings of gentleness, or sympathy, of patience and kindness, of support and backing first through the way in which they themselves are treated.”
    —James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)