15,393 Quotes About Children

When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons.

Like everything else" - Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads - "it's falling apart. It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.

When you grow up in a home where dysfunction renders you invisible and silent, it can foster deep rage to come to school where this dysfunction is perpetuated by adult after adult who demands that you sit down, be quiet, and listen to what we have to say.

There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun.

Childhood is not a rehearsal for life; childhood is life and children are already whole people.

A sons duty is to become greater than his father. A daughters duty is to become greater than her mother.

A child's duty is to become greater than his parents.

Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.