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Children Quotes by John Holt
- People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
- We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty…
- To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves...and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.
- Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business not…
- If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything…
- We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them,…
- To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
- The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you think it your…
- Schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that…
- We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough