Quotes About Children

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

The Lourie Center...is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in young children.

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.