If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: Be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

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"Trust children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we should not be trusted."

- John Holt

Love

"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."

- John Holt

Learning

"What is essential is to realize that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it."

- John Holt

Learning

"We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way."

- John Holt

Learning

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do."

- John Holt

Belief in Self

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"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

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"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

Respect

"People get built different. We don’t have to figure it out. We just have to respect it."

- Princess Bubblegum

Respect

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."

- Bryant McGill

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