Every kid should have a hobby—just not this one.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you wouldn't read yourself.

Children and fooles cannot lye.

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

As children we are taught not to play with fire, not how to play with fire.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette... unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

Any man of good sense should never have his children taught to be unusually clever.

Children and fooles can not ly.

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.