Yarrow Stalk Method

Famous quotes containing the words yarrow, stalk and/or method:

    “O haud your tongue, my father dear,
    An’ dinna grieve your Sarah;
    A better lord was never born
    Than him I lost on Yarrow.
    —Unknown. The Dowie Houms o’ Yarrow (l. 53–56)

    List Lady be not coy, and be not cosen’d
    With that same vaunted name Virginity,
    Beauty is natures coyn, must not be hoorded,
    But must be current, and the good thereof
    Consists in mutual and partak’n bliss,
    Unsavoury in th’injoyment of it self
    If you let slip time, like a neglected rose
    It withers on the stalk with languish’t head.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    In child rearing it would unquestionably be easier if a child were to do something because we say so. The authoritarian method does expedite things, but it does not produce independent functioning. If a child has not mastered the underlying principles of human interactions and merely conforms out of coercion or conditioning, he has no tools to use, no resources to apply in the next situation that confronts him.
    Elaine Heffner (20th century)