Life Quote by Alex Gaskarth

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their…

— Aldous Huxley

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in…

— Anonymous

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can…

— Isocrates

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a…

— Amy Carmichael

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Anne Sullivan

“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not…

— John Steinbeck

“Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenseless children believe absurd propositions the effect…

— Bertrand Russell

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

— John Shirley

This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Helen Keller

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to…

— Sigmund Freud

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

— Nicholas Murray Butler