“Simple rhymes learned when you are very young stay with you all your life.” Recognising the lasting power of rhythm and language learned in childhood · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter IX: Praise and Punishment Childhood Language Memory
“Only by remembering how you felt and thought when you yourself were a child can you arrive at any understanding of the thoughts and feelings of children.” Making personal memory the bridge between adult and child experience · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter VIII: The Moral Code Childhood Compassion Memory
“There is only one way of understanding children; they cannot be understood by imagination, by observation, nor even by love. They can only be understood by memory.” Arguing that remembered childhood is essential to understanding children · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter VIII: The Moral Code Childhood Memory Understanding
“The grown-ups are the people who once were children and who have forgotten what it felt like to be a child.” A memorable definition of adulthood as the loss of childhood memory · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter I: Of Understanding Age Childhood Memory
