Quotes About Children

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.