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When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

People will say that it’s some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I’d want to have the child for the child’s sake, if that makes sense.

I don’t think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

having 1 child makes you a parent having two makes you a referee.