Children Quotes

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.