age = freedom
"I want to be old!"
"Why?"
"Cause you have more freedom!"
-- Conversation with a 16-year-old girl who lives between Israel and Hong Kong
"I want to be old!"
"Why?"
"Cause you have more freedom!"
-- Conversation with a 16-year-old girl who lives between Israel and Hong Kong
"You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves."
-- John Perry Barlow, 8 Feb 1996 in "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
"We need to think of our kids less as victims and more as participants."
-- Anne Collier
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. - Elias Canetti
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