Teaching Children Quotes

• We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Life, Children, Essentials

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• What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Parenting, Want

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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  Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Atheist, Children

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

  Marie Clay

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

  Ole Ivar Lovaas

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

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• I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Education, Jobs, Children

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

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  Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Children, Mistake

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.7, Vintage

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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• We learn...
  10% of what we read
  20% of what we hear
  30% of what we see
  50% of what we both hear and see
  70% of what is discussed
  80% of what we experience personally
  95% of what we teach to someone else

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

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• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Life, Fathers Day, Children

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• The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Children, Answers

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• If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Inspirational, Family, Teacher

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Education, Children, Gay

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• ...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

  Charles Hodge

  God, Education, Religious

  Charles Hodge (1871). “Systematic Theology”, p.353

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• An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

  Thomas Gordon

  Running, Children, Parenting

  "Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children".

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• Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Children, Humble, Plowing

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.108, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

  Carolyn Porco

  Beauty, God, Children

  "A Free-for-All on Science and Religion" by George Johnson, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2006.

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