Children Quote by Diane Ravitch

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them…

— Bertrand Russell

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

— Bryant H. McGill

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind…

— Mortimer Adler

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think…

— Alice Moore Hubbard

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Helen Keller

Many teachers seem to believe their opinions are right, and therefore, all other viewpoints are wrong. And they are indoctrinating our children with their…

— Katie Hopkins

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

— Sidney Sugarman

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder…

— Alan Bennett