Children Quote by Dawn Foster

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

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back -…

— Rachel Cusk

We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back…

— Nelson Shanks

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes…

— Franz Cizek

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

— Beverly Cleary

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their…

— Erin Gruwell

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's…

— David Small

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art…

— Bette Midler

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it…

— Lisa Delpit

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

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little…

— Bertrand Russell