The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.