Famous quotes containing the words learning and/or childhood:
“To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter’s art.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)