Alice Miller wrote "A child who has been breast-fed for nine months and no longer wants to drink from the breast does not have to be taught to give it up. And a child who has been allowed to be egoistic, greedy and asocial long enough will develop spontaneous pleasure in sharing and giving."
"to ask a child to be unselfish is psychologically wrong. Every child is an egoist and the world belongs to him. When he has an apple, his one wish is to eat that apple. The chief result of mother’s encouraging him to share it with his little brother is to make him hate the little brother. Altruism comes later –comes naturally – if the child is not taught to be unselfish.” - A. S. Neill
Alice Miller wrote "A child who has been breast-fed for nine months and no longer wants to drink from the breast does not have to be taught to give it up. And a child who has been allowed to be egoistic, greedy and asocial long enough will develop spontaneous pleasure in sharing and giving."
"to ask a child to be unselfish is psychologically wrong. Every child is an egoist and the world belongs to him. When he has an apple, his one wish is to eat that apple. The chief result of mother’s encouraging him to share it with his little brother is to make him hate the little brother. Altruism comes later –comes naturally – if the child is not taught to be unselfish.” - A. S. Neill
The nature of individual humans is good or bad depending on how they adapt to education and other traumatizing processes.