Quotes About Educating Children

#1. Educating children by age group assumes that the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.

Ken Robinson

#2. Every economic ... acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

Pope Francis

#3. As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it's fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in - videos, books and art.

Marcia Gay Harden

#4. Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Stephen Covey

#5. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#6. The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Laurens Van Der Post

#7. My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

Mike Berenstain

#8. Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.

Jerome Ringo

#9. Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

Denise Juneau

#10. The clever are marrying the clever and manically educating their children, making it ever harder for the poor to catch up.

Anonymous

#11. But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

Rick Perry

#12. Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
building better lives.

Nelson Mandela

#13. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Dalai Lama

#14. We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Lydia Sigourney

#15. The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Rand Paul

#16. By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

Winnie Byanyima

#17. Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Roger Moore

#18. Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

Carine Roitfeld

#19. Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

Margaret Halsey

#20. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#21. Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

John Doolittle

#22. There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?

Gene Sperling

#23. America's educational dilemma doesn't make sense to even the casual observer. How can it be that the world's only superpower has so much trouble educating its youth? Why is it that providing all American children with a solid, first-rate education is so hard for this mighty nation?

Karin Chenoweth

#24. This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his Creator.

Elizabeth Foss

#25. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

Charles Colson

#26. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#27. Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step of obedience for you as a parent and provides godly direction for your child.

John C. Broger

#28. I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

Suzanne Collins

#29. A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

Michael Meade

#30. Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

J.G. Ballard

#31. Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

Neal Boortz

#32. Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Seth Berkley

#33. I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

Mark Wahlberg

#34. I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

Shakira

#35. Whatever else Lenin might have done - and it was difficult to separate the truth from the conservative propaganda - at least, Billy thought, he was serious about educating Russian children. On

Ken Follett

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control. Her method of teaching breeds disrespect and prejudice. Her students have been dehumanized.

Arun Gandhi

#38. 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

#39. At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

Mark Kennedy

#40. We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

Albert Einstein

#41. The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Lee De Forest