Another quote

This from a weekly email I get from a church I once attended:

German writer, Goethe: "If you treat a person as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Powerful thought that. I know the opposite is true having seen parents repeatedly tell their children how stupid they are and guess what ... the kids become stupid.