Consider this very deep Alexander Den Heijer quote in the context of children/families/schools, of our criminal justice system, of government employees, ...
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
- Alexander Den Heijer
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold;
it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation;
it strengthens the power of resistance
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bars can't build better men, and misery can only break what goodness remains.
- Stuart Turton
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
- Nelson Mandela
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading:
Be Grateful, Pay It Forward
