Top 100 Children Teaching Quotes
#1. Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.
Gurney Williams
#2. 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
#3. You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
Steve Martin
#4. In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize
Arthur Hertzberg
#5. The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
Maria Montessori
#6. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.
William Deresiewicz
#7. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
Joyce Cary
#8. My answer seemed to please him, and he let it go. Matthew was teaching me not to over explain, to explain just enough to make him happy, and not dig the verbal hole deeper. Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just what's asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#9. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. Teaching our children is more than just imparting information. It's helping our children get the doctrine into their hearts in a way that it becomes part of their very being and is reflected in their attitudes and behavior throughout their lives.
Cheryl A. Esplin
#11. We must trust that what we're doing has a purpose. We must realize that we're not here to make kids conform or perform, but that we're here to help them to develop their own unique skills and talents, not the ones we want them to have or the ones we think they should have.
Tom Walsh
#12. Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.
Tom DeLay
#13. It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a rifle before I could even hold it with my own strength. And if he hadn't trusted me to be careful, I would have never had faith in myself to do it.
Nancy E. Turner
#14. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.
Hughes Oliphant Old
#15. So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents.
Alex Kendrick
#16. It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#17. From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.
Joy Kogawa
#18. Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#20. The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#21. Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
Howard Gardner
#22. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.
Brandon Sanderson
#23. At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach - it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
Sydney J. Harris
#24. What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
Alexander Haig
#25. Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins
#27. If we argue that since all bodies are perishable, one may kill, does it follow that I may kill all the women and children in the Ashram? Would I have in doing so acted according to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, merely because their bodies are perishable? What,
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
Peter Block
#29. An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.
James E. Faust
#30. A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
Malcolm X
#31. Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Paul Hauck
#32. We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.
Bill Bright
#33. Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best.
Greg Rucka
#34. Teaching my children to love something. Then to faithfully and confidently act on that love is my biggest accomplishment.
Garry Fitchett
#35. I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.
Stephen Moyer
#36. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Criss Jami
#37. See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
John Ruskin
#38. By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
Walter Isaacson
#39. Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.
E.W. Jackson
#40. They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children
Jill Telford
#41. If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
Austin O'Malley
#42. I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of
Sherry Turkle
#43. The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
Boyd K. Packer
#44. The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Gilbert Highet
#45. Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
Alison Gopnik
#46. It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching
John Ruskin
#47. Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Marva Collins
#48. My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.
Melania Trump
#50. The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interests at home and abroad.
Tucker Elliot
#51. 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
#52. First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
Angelina Jolie
#53. No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
Boyd K. Packer
#54. A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#55. Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#56. Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won't embarrass us. We're working toward something much more important than that. We're actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#57. We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.
Rod McKuen
#58. Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.
Nita Ambani
#59. There's one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it's like to be one.
Justin Young
#60. Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?
Magda Gerber
#61. People who smile tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.
James V. McConnell
#62. Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?
Charles Francis Potter
#63. Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
Thomas S. Monson
#64. Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
Glenn Beck
#65. Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.
Charles E. McKenzie
#66. Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
#67. Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
Alice Waters
#68. The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.
William Glasser
#69. If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.
Amy Carmichael
#70. Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.
Steven Levy
#71. When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
M. Scott Peck
#72. Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'
David A. Bednar
#73. By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.
Cheryl Richardson
#74. The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.
L. Tom Perry
#75. Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato
#76. The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
Maria Montessori
#77. Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
C.J. Mahaney
#78. Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage
Harper Lee
#79. Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. ... We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.
Sean Hannity
#80. Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#81. If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal?
Ali Altantawi
#82. The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.
Pat Buchanan
#83. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#84. Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#85. Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Plato
#86. Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#87. We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.
Carl Sagan
#88. The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
Maria Montessori
#89. Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
Holbrook Jackson
#90. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
Suzy Kassem
#91. Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.
Shinichi Suzuki
#92. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
C.M. Stunich
#93. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
Robert Bly
#96. The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
Jerome Bruner
#97. Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.
Keith Johnstone
#98. 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
#99. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!
Rex L. Forehand
#100. Why do we teach our children to hate others when there are so many options to love? Why do we teach hate when kindness, compassion, tolerance, and harmony add such beauty to life?
Debasish Mridha
