Quotes About Childhood

when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comesthe necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

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

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn't talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.