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If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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As quoted in Human Development : A Science of Growth (1961) by Justin Pikunas, p. 311; this might be based on a translation or paraphrase by Viktor Frankl, to whom it is also sometimes attributed; reportedly in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Book VIII chapter 4
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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As quoted in My Country Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1968) by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23

 

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