Ron Says…

“You will find that the illnesses of a child are generally immediately preceded by a standard dramatization of somebody else in his vicinity. In other words, there will be quarrels and upsets which precede childhood illnesses. There will be exact circumstances there which cause an engram to go into restimulation. We can bank on engrams as the predisposing thing. Actually the pathology of the child is not bacteria but is a lock of some sort. You will do well to go back and find the locks. If you want to cure this child—suppose he has chronic colds, he has lot of colds, go back and find out what preceded these colds. These are types of colds, et cetera. You will find out that it will be an emotional, mental disturbance preceding the pathology in the usual course of childhood illness. It’s going to be very hard to find sometimes, but you can discover it.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ron Says…

“Have you ever had a child on your lap sitting there enjoying himself, just talking about something or eating candy or something of the sort, and then wrap your arms around the child lightly—you’re not hurting the child, but just wrap your arms around him in a closed loop? That child wants to be gone right there.

“One of the saddest things that can be done to life is to imprison and constrain it against its own will. That is why we have invented the prison, because it breaks men; it finishes them! The same thing with a child, so you just carry over the period of natural attention span with this child and the child is immediately going to start getting restive, and you’re going to have to put on constraint.

“And how is that child going to act to constraint? He’s going to be out of contact with you the next time because you’re just like every other grown-up: you try to pen him up.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ron Says…

“A child is a little bit like a blank slate. If you write the wrong things on it, it will say the wrong things. But, unlike a slate, a child can begin to do the writing: the child tends to write what has been written already. The problem is complicated by the fact that, while most children are capable of great decency, a few are born insane and, today, some are even born as drug addicts: but such cases are an unusual few.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Ron Says…

“Gee whiz, it’s—here is all these schoolkids and these schoolkids have been having a rough time and all of these kids packed into rooms, lousy curriculum, master just in horrible shape. Why? He’s got too many students, he’s got too many bosses, he— these kids come from homes that are all upset and backwards, and so forth. It’s a big problem. Big problem.

“Well, one of the solutions to this has to do with the fact that if you were to take the present time age bracket between six and twelve and straighten it out, Scientology would have won, hands down, in about fifteen years. You see, that’s—it all becomes a very easy thing, doesn’t it?”

L. Ron Hubbard