A Child Can Teach Quotes

#1. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Paulo Coelho

#2. The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#3. It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Margaret Landon

#6. Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classroom - the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly.

Richard Rodriguez

#8. When we pray as the Scriptures teach us to pray, we learn that prayer is a relationship of dependence. It is a child communicating with his or her heavenly Father.

Judson Cornwall

#9. It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#10. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.

Nicole Krauss

#12. He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man, but kept a child. When

Henry David Thoreau

#13. The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Maria Montessori

#14. This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

Jacques Pepin

#15. the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don't despair, child, while you're walking through it.

Angela Elwell Hunt

#16. Daniel was very like a child in all the parts of his character. He was strongly affected by whatever was present, and apt to forget the absent. He acted on impulse, and too often had reason to be sorry for it; but he hated his sorrow too much to let it teach him wisdom for the future.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

Margaret Mitchell

#18. How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

Jim Rohn

#19. You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Bruno Bettelheim

#20. When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.

Allan Lokos

#21. He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

William Blake

#22. The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

Andrew Card

#23. your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which you your self do not know

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#24. It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Maria Montessori

#25. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.

Caroline Kennedy

#26. If you can give the wisdom of life to a child; teach to love all regardless of what they believe in, that life is a precious gift to all, judgments of hell and heaven are manmade concept and that every one's purpose in life is to serve Humanity at large...

Husam Wafaei

#27. You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do.

Magda Gerber

#29. How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

Madeleine L'Engle

#30. The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

Kevin Leman

#31. A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar.

Paulo Coelho

#32. It's our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child's life.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#33. No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

Max Lucado

#34. The importance of patience and communication. Having a child and husband, working crazy and unpredictable times for shows, and traveling to teach dance around America can make life a bit stressful. I have had to learn to communicate with everyone attached to my life no matter what the circumstance.

Allison Holker

#35. I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

Marva Collins

#36. Most people in the psychology field believe that if we do not get a child to bond at a deep level with someone by age eight, we have lost them. We can never recover them and teach them empathy. Never.

Patti Henry

#37. What you teach a child today can have life-long results. If you love, encourage, and treat a child with respect and dignity, that child will grow and flourish. But, if you ridicule a child for any reason, you strip him or her of self-worth that may never be recovered.

Brenda Hill

#38. God created places and things in the Old Testament to teach us about Jesus in the New Testament. These pictures are so simple, even a child can understand them. God graciously babbled at us so we can learn complex truths.

Todd Friel

#39. It's good of you to teach the child. A woman needs to be as independent as she can be ore else the world will use her skirts as handkerchiefs and then toss her in the garbage.

Suzanne Hayes

#40. I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.
They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

David Kahn

#41. A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

K. Lamb

#42. There's no harm in a child crying: the harm is done
only if his cries aren't answered ... If you ignore
a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him
ndependence ... What you teach him is that no
other human being will take care of his needs

Lee Salk

#43. There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.

Jackie French

#44. Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

George W. Bush

#45. If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

Alice Miller

#46. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Bill Walton

#47. When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

Jaggi Vasudev

#48. You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination

K. Lamb

#49. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Karen Karbo

#50. If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

Stanley Williams

#51. The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.
Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us...

Madeleine L'Engle

#52. Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

Robert Jeffress

#53. Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

Nachman Of Breslov

#54. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Ellen Gilchrist

#55. She's fertile, docile . . . she'd give you a child every nine months! I'll teach her how to raise the children, and that way they'll all be the way I want them to be! Isn't that wonderful?

Joel Dicker

#56. Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Isadora Duncan

#57. I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Edward Zigler

#58. The child must teach the man.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#59. Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin

#60. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#61. God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

Elie Faure

#62. My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

Heber J. Grant

#63. Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.

Steve Jobs

#64. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Bel Kaufman

#65. If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

Sunil Mittal

#66. Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Maria Montessori

#67. When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Jean Piaget

#68. The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

Mem Fox

#69. A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#70. You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.

Milton H. Erickson

#71. Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#72. Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Thomas Szasz

#73. Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me
Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen
Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.

Sarah Doudney

#74. You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush

#75. The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.

Elisabeth Elliot

#76. The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Zhuangzi

#77. It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

James Baldwin

#78. If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

Kevin Heath

#79. We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Bill Drayton

#80. Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Thomas Huxley

#81. Teach a child not to seek help but to seek the opportunity to help others.

Debasish Mridha

#82. If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

Austin O'Malley

#83. Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs.

Ace Antonio Hall

#84. Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Joseph Weizenbaum

#85. And only well-informed, warm-hearted people can teach others things they'll always remember and love. Computers and TV don't do that. A computer teaches a child what a computer can become. An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.

Kurt Vonnegut

#86. The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them ... and onto YOU.

Suzy Kassem