Child Labor Laws

Famous quotes containing the words child, labor and/or laws:

“How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won’t amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.”
—Haim Ginott (20th century)

“But genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)