“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss
“Adults are obsolete children.”
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
Erich Fromm
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
G. K. Chesterton