Skip to content

Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.

— Adam Gopnik How to Raise a Prodigy (2018)

Another quote →

More quotes by Adam Gopnik

Paddock wanted to kill a lot of people because he wanted to kill a lot of people.

The Las Vegas Massacre Report and the Rise of Second Amendment Nihilism (2018)

There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.

How to Raise a Prodigy (2018)

Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.

How to Raise a Prodigy (2018)

We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later—it might; it does!—but because it’s obnoxious now.

How to Raise a Prodigy (2018)

We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

How to Raise a Prodigy (2018)

All Adam Gopnik quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Adam Gopnik (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.