Attention Quote by Catharine Beecher

female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give…

— Thomas Jefferson

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as…

— Christine de Pizan

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

— Clarence Darrow

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young…

— Jane Addams

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as…

— Christine de Pizan

Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the…

— Sharmila Tagore

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

— Havelock Ellis

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

— George Bernard Shaw

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

— Maurice Saatchi

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

— Richard Brautigan

When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she…

— Howard Gardner