Quotes About Children

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.

Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too have their own games, one more serious than the other, one game inside another, so that it's impossible to discover what the real one is.

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Les enfants sont par définition des apprentis, et apprendre est l'activité humaine qui nécessite le moins de manipulation par autrui. La majeure partie de l'apprentissage n'est pas le resultat de l'instruction. Elle serait plutôt le résultat d'une participation dans un environnement chargé de sens.

No daycare center can duplicate a mother.

Always gave birth to his children, it was for business reasons, not for love, so he didn't count them to be much to him. They was for work, or sale.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

There are really only two kinds of children in the world: the ones who shy back from a wild frog, scrunch up their face, and stick their tongue out—and those who join in the chase!

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them then to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.

In health, then, children develop enough belief in themselves and in other people to hate external controls of all kinds, controls have changed over into self-control. In self-control the conflict has been worked through within the person in advance. So I see it this way: good condi- tions in the early stages lead to a sense of security, and a sense of security leads on to seIf-control, and when selfcontrol is a fact, then security that is imposed is an insult (36).

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

WHAT IS the fundamental purpose of education? Tsunesaburo Makiguchi declared, "The purpose of education is to enable children to live happy lives.

These are the Fairy Tale Fairies," said Hannah with a beaming smile. "These four are Julia the Sleeping Beauty Fairy, Eleanor the Snow White Fairy, Faith the Cinderella Fairy, and Lacey the Little Mermaid Fairy." "Hello," said Rachel and Kirsty. "And these three are Rita the Frog Princess Fairy, Gwen the Beauty and the Beast Fairy, and Aisha the Princess and the Pea Fairy," Hannah finished.

Not by power or might, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts," he said. "A father is never prouder of his children than when they make him a little bit ashamed of himself.

What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.

Because so large a portion of our fellow human beings articulate their own meaning, purpose, and values through their religions, it is essential that our children know as much as possible about those religions.

unquestioning obedience to "absolute" rules—turns out to be the single least productive thing we can do for our children's moral development.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide.

evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It's this aspect of religious indoctrination that is most unacceptable—the idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer, and that someone else has already figured out what that answer is.