“Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.”
Quoted in Gently And Firmly By C.P. Varkey, p. 87
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Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: NOS4A2
As quoted in Human Development : A Science of Growth (1961) by Justin Pikunas, p. 311; this might be based on a translation or paraphrase by Viktor Frankl, to whom it is also sometimes attributed.
:In Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Book VIII, Chapter four) Goethe writes:
:“Wenn wir” sagtest Du, “die Menschen nur nehmen, wie sie sind, so machen wir sie schlechter; wenn wir sie behandeln als wären sie, was sie sein sollten, so bringen wir sie dahin, wohin sie zu bringen sind."
:Werke, Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bänden, Verlag C. H. Beck München, Herausgegeben von Erich Trunz
: Variant translations:
:*Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
::* As quoted in My Country Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1968) by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23
:* "‘When we take people,’ thou wouldst say, ‘merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.’"
::* This translation occurs in the Harvard Classics edition of Wilhem Meister's Apprenticeship, Book VIII, Chapter IV. Translation by Thomas Carlyle Bartelby Online Edition of 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'. http://www.bartleby.com/314/804.html
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Source: Wings of Fire, p. 135 or p. 136 in certain university press editions.
“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
Maxim 401
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.”
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 31.
