Teaching Children Quotes:

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

- Ole Ivar Lovaas

topic: Autism, Way, Teach, Psychopathology, Children Learning

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

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

source: Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

topic: Jobs, Children, Teaching, Great Job, Love Teaching

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

topic: Inspirational, Family, Teacher, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

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

topic: Children, Want, Teach, Being A Parent, Raising Children

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

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Marriage, Mother, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

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

- William Butler Yeats

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

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

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

- Margaret Mead

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

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Education

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

- Richard Dawkins

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

topic: Children, Thinking, Teach, Critical Thinking, Indoctrination

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

- Leonard Peltier

topic: Children, Real, Healing, Heal The World, Cultural Diversity

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

- Rudolf Dreikurs

topic: Sorry, Children, Mistake, We All Make Mistakes, Nurturing

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

- Natalia Ginzburg

topic: Education, Children, Thinking, Frankness, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Teaching Children, Schooling

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

- Linda Darling-Hammond

source: Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

topic: Baby, Learning, School, Memorizing, Children Learning

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

- Francis Crick

topic: Children, May, Taught, Christian Education, Teaching Children

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

- Lisa See

source: Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.150, A&C Black

topic: Baby, Order, Serious, Being A Parent, Raising Children

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.

- Carolyn Porco

topic: Children, Grandma, Teaching, Teaching Children, Smart Women

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

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Children, Culture, Taught, Futurist, Raising Children

If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Children, War, Intelligent, Futurist, Raising Children

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.

- Fisher Ames

topic: Children, Book, School, Spending Less, Moral Lessons

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Obedience, Grades, Relevant, Bad Grades, Teaching Children

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

- David Sobel

source: "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

topic: Children, Thinking, Tree, Sounder, Flourishing

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

- Tim Allen

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mom, Sexy, Fun, Being A Father, Being A Parent

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

source: Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business

topic: Children, Math, Support, Being A Parent, Raising Children

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.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Children, Book, Tired, Joy Of Learning, Being A Father

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

topic: Children, Way, Assuming, Children Learning, Researchers

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

- Gavin de Becker

source: Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

topic: Inspirational, Children, Nice, Niceness, Nice People

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.

- Arnold Gesell

source: 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)”

topic: Baby, Children, Selfish, Dependence, Child Care

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Light, Good Teacher, Wonderful Teacher

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

topic: Children, Heart, Keys, Modern Education, Raising Children

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

- Rudolf Dreikurs

topic: Children, Essentials, Protect, Raising Children, Teaching Children

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Children, Communication, Library, Raising Children, Reading Books

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

topic: Education, Teach, Discussing, Teaching Children

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

- Elliot W. Eisner

topic: Art, Children, Answers, Problems And Solutions, Teaching Children

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

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

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

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

- Loretta Lynn

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

topic: Country, Mistake, Teaching, Singer-songwriters, Teaching Children

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Life, Education, Children, Large Family, Wise Parents

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.

- Carl Jung

topic: Teacher, Gratitude, Appreciation, Math Education, Math Teacher

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

- L. Tom Perry

topic: Children, Teaching, Joy, Teaching Children

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

topic: Peace, Children, Compassion, Core Values, Taking Things For Granted

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

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational School

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

source: "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.

topic: Education, Teacher, Hurt, Inspirational Teacher, Learning And Growing

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Education, Wise, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

When one teaches, two learn.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Education, Two, Teach, Children And Education, Teaching And Education

...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

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Inspirational Teacher, Obtaining

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

- James Dyson

topic: Children, Teaching, School, Teaching Children

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

topic: Inspiring, Children, Book, Enticing, Illiterate

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

topic: Children, Hands, Knowing, Early Childhood, Child Care