„Regressive listeners behave like children. Again and again and with stubborn malice, they demand the one dish they have once been served.“

— Theodor W. Adorno

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„Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.“
— Paul of Tarsus
„Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.“
— James Baldwin
„Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kid's hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. Next to impossible, in most cases.“
— Haruki Murakami