My Children Quotes
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.
The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.
Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.
You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.
Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.