D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

I try to stay out of my kids' way and kind of just let them discover things for themselves. Our job as parents is more to keep other people out of their way, so they're free to discover what works for them on their own.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.