Top 78 What We Teach Our Children Quotes
#1. We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
Harold S. Kushner
#2. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#3. 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
#4. If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.
Sherry Turkle
#5. Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?
Daniel Quinn
#6. 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
#7. Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#8. Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
Shelley Morrison
#9. Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.
Amy Jo Martin
#10. Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Joyce Brothers
#11. Want to help brighten humanity? Inspire children. What we teach children today ... will help brighten our tomorrow's
Timothy Pina
#13. The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#14. How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?
T.D. Jakes
#15. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
Louise L. Hay
#16. Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Benjamin Franklin
#18. Although she missed the singing by the children from the school opposite her apartment, she didn't teach her own pupils to sing 'We Shall Overcome' in any language, because she wasn't sure that Overcoming was anywhere on anyone's horizon.
Arundhati Roy
#19. Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
Antonio De Oliveira Salazar
#20. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Isabel Paterson
#21. 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
#22. In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more - which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.
Malcolm Gladwell
#23. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.
Alice Waters
#24. ...if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed it had discarded the beauty of art and literature, if you thought it had crushed the power of truth, would you let that world educate your children?
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#25. The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.
Doris Christopher
#26. When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#27. I think it's very important that we teach children how to think, not what to think.
J.D. Brucker
#28. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?
Archibald Marwizi
#29. My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children.
Susan Shreve
#30. Until we teach our children that they need to be concerned with how they look and with what other people think, they dance.
Brene Brown
#31. 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
#32. For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
Marguerite Duras
#33. 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
#35. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#36. The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
Carol S. Dweck
#37. If we use how we were taught yesterday to teach our children today, we are not preparing them well for tomorrow.
Daniel J. Siegel
#38. We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.
Walt Mueller
#39. We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.
Jim Rohn
#40. Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
Rachel Hunter
#41. I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.
Tina Roth-Eisenberg
#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. Well, my mother did teach me a killer family recipe for a Bloody Mary. I guess I can make that next Thanksgiving-Haylee Mitchell
Natasha Larry
#44. I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash ... you add a longer tail ... you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.
Erma Bombeck
#45. Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
#46. I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
Harrison Ford
#47. If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
Robert Breault
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
#52. There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
Terry Pratchett
#54. Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
Jim Rogers
#56. Food is first for nourishment, not just for taste or appearance, and this is an important thing to teach children.
Katie Wells
#57. Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?
Tanya R. Liverman
#58. What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Kathleen Turner
#59. We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
Piero Ferrucci
#60. What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.
Narendra Modi
#61. We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe.
Gary Bauer
#62. I blame my generation for having neglected to teach our children that in life there are no safe places, that safety is an illusion. "Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961.
Azar Nafisi
#63. If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
William Penn
#64. What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?
Pablo Casals
#65. Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and what we live are the same.
Dwan J. Young
#66. We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.
Jeff B. Davis
#67. Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#68. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
#69. Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
Jonathan Sacks
#70. What do we teach our children? ... We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique ... You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
Pablo Casals
#71. If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
William Bennett
#73. Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.
Sanford I. Weill
#74. If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.
Michelle Singletary
#75. I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children; that the world isn't all about them, and that through our actions people will really discover what kind of a person we truly are.
Gretchen Carlson
#76. When our schools fail to teach our children what they should know, other schools take their place and teach different lessons, which we may not like.
Anand Neelakantan
#77. Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique ... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.
Charles Handy
#78. You are God's agents in the care of children He has entrusted to you. Let His divine influence remain in your hears as you teach and persuade.
Russell M. Nelson
