Quotes About Youth

Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.