
Robert Coles — The Inner Lives of Children
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Dorothy Day, a Child Psychologist
robert coles is a child psychiatrist and author. He has also written about exceptional adults in his long career, among them the poet and physician william carlos williams,. musician bruce springstein and catholic social activist dorothy day. i'm really struck in the sort of breadth of your writing, that you have not only been observing and influenced by wise children, but also there are some wise adult figures who recur in your writings. And so i wonder if if you make a correlation between adults whom you admire and, le's say, lives of moral leadership and some of these qualities of the children you've studied. I may be a little sweeping in a general
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