Teach Your Child Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Josh Billings

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Benjamin Franklin

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. 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

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Jim Rohn

#20. 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

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

Allan Lokos

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

William Blake

#23. 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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Jean Piaget

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

Mem Fox

#27. 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

#28. Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#29. 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

#30. Reduce words Embrace emotions Describe, don't preach Involve your child in the discipline Reframe a no into a conditional yes Emphasize the positive Creatively approach the situation Teach mindsight tools

Daniel J. Siegel

#31. If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Fran Lebowitz

#32. You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

Howie Mandel

#33. For your sake, jewel,
I am glad at soul I have no other child;
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them.

William Shakespeare

#34. Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

K. Lamb

#35. As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

Kathryn Stockett

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. The festive season isn't just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it's also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#39. But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

Marcus Sakey

#40. 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

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

George W. Bush

#42. 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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Margaret Landon

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

Debasish Mridha

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

K. Lamb

#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. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Steve Jobs

#63. 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

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

Sunil Mittal

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

Kevin Heath

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

George W. Bush

#70. 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

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

Daniel Beaty

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

Zhuangzi

#73. 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

#74. 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

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

Bill Drayton

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

Thomas Huxley

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Austin O'Malley

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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