Bruno Bettelheim Quotes
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.
Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.
No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.
From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.
The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.