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Thu 26 May, 2016 05:30 am
One knows intuitively, when teaching a child, that only the utmost care and patience will ever work: one must never shout, one has to use extraordinary tact, one has to make ten compliments for every one negative remark and one must leave oneself plenty of time…
All this wisdom we reliably forget in love’s classroom, sadly because increasing the level of threat seldom hastens development. We do not grow more reasonable, more accepting of responsibility and more accurate about our weaknesses when our pride has been wounded, our integrity is threatened and our self-esteem has been violated.
@123456------,
these words such as "negative remark" "reliably forget" and "grow more accurate about our weakness" mean what?please help me! thank you so much!
@123456------,
It means that the writer believes you should coddle your child and never say a negative word. Never say "that's wrong" instead say "that's almost correct."
There is no evidence or agreement that the writer is correct.
@123456------,
123456------ wrote:
these words such as "negative remark" "reliably forget" and "grow more accurate about our weakness" mean what?please help me! thank you so much!
"Negative remark" - a critical comment like "that's a bad way to do it."
"Reliably forget" - this is not a stock phrase. "Reliably" means something you can count on to happen all the time, so "reliably forget" means that you can count on people forgetting to do things that they know are right.
"Grow more accurate about our weakness" means develop a better understanding about what we are bad about. Note that in the paragraph is starts with "We do not..." so it is saying we do not develop a better understanding.
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