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Hypatia:
  • Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

    • Patrick Hearn:
  • No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

    • Montessori:
  • It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.

    • Rubadiri:
  • Black child, I see your wings sprouting.

    • Anne Sullivan:
  • Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.

    • Montessori:
  • The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

    • Onesimo Silveira:
  • Children will be children! Black and blonde and white Shall be the petals of the same flower…

    • Rubadiri:
  • The children's laughter sounds loud Bringing back to me Simple joys I once knew .

    • Sarojini Naidu:
  • Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”

    • Thales:
  • Whatever you offer to your parents , the same expect from your children

    • Marie Curie:
  • A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

    • Elizabeth Bishop:
  • What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

    • Montessori:
  • At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.

    • Jean Piaget:
  • Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.Play is the work of childhood.

    • Anne Sullivan:
  • I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

    • Derek Walcott:
  • “What are men? Children who doubt.”

    • Montessori:
  • When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

    • Pavarotti:
  • If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

    • Heraclitus:
  • Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

    • Chanel:
  • As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

    • Marie Curie:
  • All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

    • Rimbaud:
  • Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

    • Heinrich Bell:
  • A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

    • Leonard Cohen:
  • “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

    • Chinua Achebe:
  • Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings

    • Amílcar Cabral:
  • Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

    • Norman Mailer:
  • There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

    • Socrates:
  • An honest man is always a child.

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.

    • Beethoven:
  • Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

    • Ionesco:
  • Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

    • Montessori:
  • The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.

    • Plato:
  • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.

    • Montessori:
  • As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.

    • Norman Mailer:
  • Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

    • Maria Kallas:
  • There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

    • Strindberg:
  • He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

    • Montessori:
  • The child who has never learned to work by himself, to set goals for his own acts, or to be the master of his own force of will is recognizable in the adult who lets others guide his will and feels a constant need for approval of others.

    • Isokratis:
  • Treat your parents as you would like your children to behave to you.

    • Democritus:
  • Excessive desires characterize children, no men.

    • Tagore:
  • “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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

    • Montessori:
  • Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • Ιt takes courage to raise children.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

    • Schiller:
  • Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • The soul is healed by being with children.

    • Democritus:
  • Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

    • Diderot:
  • The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

    • Sylvia Plath:
  • Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

    • Cicero:
  • To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

    • Goethe:
  • There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

    • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

    • B. W. Yeats:
  • I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

    • Carl Jung:
  • One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

    • Sophocles:
  • A man growing old becomes a child again.

    • Schiller:
  • Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

    • Dante:
  • Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

    • Tagore:
  • Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

    • Plutarch:
  • To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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