One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness. In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are — though they might not agree — robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.


At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (1967); also quoted in Childhood Revisited (1974) by Joel I. Milgram and Dorothy June Sciarra, p. 90

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they ...

One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they ...

One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they ...

One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they ...