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  • Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

    David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

    George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  • The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

    "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.
  • What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  • The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  • Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  • We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

  • Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  • 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.

  • We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

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

    Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”
  • The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

    Baby   Children   Selfish  
    Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”
  • Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

    "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.
  • I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

    Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225
  • Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

    "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.
  • My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

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

  • The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

  • The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

    Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014
  • Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  • The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

    "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.
  • Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

  • conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

    Children   Teaching   Use  
    Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse
  • 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 (1871). “Systematic Theology”, p.353
  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press
  • 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.

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