“The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.”
“Man is the Child of his Environment”
“The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on living. He has become a parasite on the world, drawing his life from his environment, unable to live a day apart from the stimulation which society affords him.”
“A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.”
“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”