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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Children read to learn – even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries – it is all new to them.
I didn’t want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, What happened then, daddy? I said, If you learn to read, you can find out. I’m too tired to read. I’ll read to you tomorrow. So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don’t teach children how to read. Don’t teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they’re working ass-backwards.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I’d bring things to class that I’d cooked at home.
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won’t go in there. That’s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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.