Business Quote by Bertrand Russell

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a…

— Miss Read

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to…

— Seymour Papert

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise…

— Samuel Richardson

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

— Esperanza Spalding

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“Mrs. [Sidonie Matsner] Gruenberg [in Radio and Children ]. . . says: Probably the 'good' effects upon children's characters are as unpremeditated as the…

— Judith C. Waller

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

— Solomon Ortiz

“Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as true what…

— André Breton

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of…

— Stephen Covey