“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
“You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”
“You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his dog....”