| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12966 |
| QUOTATION: | Young children...are often uninterested in conversation It is not that they don’t have ideas and feelings, or need to express them to others It is simply that as one eight-year-old boy once told me, “Talking is okay, but I don’t like to do it all the time the way grown-ups do; I guess you have to develop the habit.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Coles (20th century), U.S. child psychiatrist. Children of Crisis, ch. 3 (1964). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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