The right kind of education consists in understanding the child as he is without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be. To enclose him in the framework of an ideal is to encourage him to conform, which breeds fear and produces in him a constant conflict between what he is and what he should be; and all inward conflicts have their outward manifestations in society. Krishnamurti
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The quote from William E. Hooks, "The right kind of education consists in understanding the child as he is without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be." is a great statement on how parents should not make their children conform to an ideal. Parents should teach children how to grow into a person that they can become, but not force them to follow a certain path that their parents thought they should take. This quote is a great way to open up discussions between parents and their children on what they would like them to do in their lives.

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