Robert J. Havighurst quotes

Robert J. Havighurst quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.”
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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“The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.”
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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“The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.”
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.”
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.”
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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“The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.”
-- Robert J. Havighurst

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