Teach Children Quotes
44 quotes by 40 authors
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
— Sherman Alexie
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A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to…
— James E. Myers
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UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in…
— Ewan McGregor
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And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me…
— Stephen Colbert
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that…
— Colin Beavan
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Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to…
— Colin Beavan
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If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
— Austin O'Malley
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Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.
— Neal Boortz
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We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it…
— Henry Ford
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I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the…
— Jacque Fresco
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The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
— Elliot W. Eisner
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What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
— Jim Trelease
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I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
— Eugene V. Debs
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May we learn to say “thank you†to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do…
— Pope Francis
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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
— Katherine Paterson
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We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we…
— Melody Beattie
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Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'
— Greg Smith
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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
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