“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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Brené Brown 101
US writer and professor 1965Related quotes
7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“… happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release…”
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96
“Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.”
Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1913, Ch. 5.
Source: Summerhill (1960), p. 12
Context: You cannot make children learn music or anything else without to some degree converting them into will-less adults. You fashion them into accepters of the status quo – a good thing for a society that needs obedient sitters at dreary desks, standers in shops, mechanical catchers of the 8:30 suburban train – a society, in short, that is carried on the shabby shoulders of the scared little man – the scared-to-death conformist.
“So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?”
Source: An Experiment in Love
