"Problem-solving requires confidence [in children] that solutions can be discovered and a healthy self-esteem about one’s ability to find them. These attitudes require nurturing over a long period of time, on countless small, day-to-day issues. Too much too fast can only destroy them.” #QotD

“Frightened or apathetic children are not going to grow into the adults who will be able to solve the world’s problems. Problem-solving requires confidence that solutions can be discovered and a healthy self-esteem about one’s ability to find them. These attitudes require nurturing over a long period of time, on countless small, day-to-day issues. Too much too fast can only destroy them.”    

      ~ Philosopher Stephen Hicks, from his 1991 [!] WSJ article, 'Global Problems Are Too Big for Little Kids,' on widespread reports of children coming home from school scared that the world is ending soon

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