Children Quotes - Page 7

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere-to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place