The Secret of Childhood

If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to possess them.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults should gain some new intellectual knowledge or achieve a higher standard of culture. No, they must find a different point of departure. The adult must find within himself the still unknown error that prevents him from seeing the child as he is.