William Damon quotes
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“Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.”
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“There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.”
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“Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.”
-- William Damon
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health”
Source : Cited in: Thomas J. Sweeney (1989), 'Adlerian counseling: a practical approach for a new decade', p. 54, 1981.
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