Famous quotes containing the words yarrow, stalk and/or method:
““O haud your tongue, my father dear,
An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
A better lord was never born
Than him I lost on Yarrow.”
—Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)
““The stalk is withered dry, my love,
So will our hearts decay;
So make yourself content, my love,
Till God calls you away.””
—Unknown. The Unquiet Grave (l. 25–28)
“In child rearing it would unquestionably be easier if a child were to do something because we say so. The authoritarian method does expedite things, but it does not produce independent functioning. If a child has not mastered the underlying principles of human interactions and merely conforms out of coercion or conditioning, he has no tools to use, no resources to apply in the next situation that confronts him.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)