If You Teach A Child Quotes

#1. If you teach a child to pass a test, he will learn for a day. If you teach a child to understand how he learns, he will learn for a lifetime." -- Kelly Flynn

Kelly Flynn

#2. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Thomas Huxley

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

Bill Drayton

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

Kevin Heath

#7. 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

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

Zhuangzi

#9. The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.

Daniel Beaty

#10. 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

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

George W. Bush

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Austin O'Malley

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Mem Fox

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

Jean Piaget

#19. 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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.

Chris Cleave

#24. If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.

Max Heindel

#25. But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

Chris Cleave

#26. And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I.

Nicole Krauss

#27. 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

#28. Teach a child good manners during babyhood.

Nachman Of Breslov

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

Sunil Mittal

#30. 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

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

Steve Jobs

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Benjamin Franklin

#36. The child must teach the man.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Ellen Gilchrist

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Stanley Williams

#45. 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

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

K. Lamb

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

Jaggi Vasudev

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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