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Doris Lessing Quotes about Children

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Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Doris Lessing
Children, Immature, Doe
Doris May Lessing (1988). “The making of the representative for Planet 8”, Vintage

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Doris Lessing
Children, Lying, Inspiration
"Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Doris Lessing
Children, Intelligent, Boring

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Doris Lessing
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Children
Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

Doris Lessing
Children, Stupid, Understanding
Doris Lessing (2013). “Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

Doris Lessing
Children, Sorry, School
Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

Doris Lessing
Children, Belief, Talent

There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

Doris Lessing
Children, School, Thinking

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

Doris Lessing
Children, Delight, Ability
Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

Doris Lessing
Children, Spring, Interesting

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