If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become the bigger and better man.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
January 11, 2008...2:48 pm
Making Bigger and Better Men
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January 11, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Did this come from your google home page?
It almost sounds like the idea that if you want to make a man (or a woman) responsbible then you give them responsibility and they will grow into into it (hopefully).
January 16, 2008 at 11:17 am
No it did not come from my google homepage. I don’t do that like some people. And I didn’t see the word “responsibility” mentioned once. I think it means simply that you view and treat people through the lens of hope. If you constantly treat someone as though they will never change, you are wighing them down to never change. If you encourage people and uplift then there is a chance they will seek to grow into the standard you see.