Children Quote by John W Holt Jr

When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying,…

— Tarthang Tulku

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to…

— Maria Montessori

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller

Children are programmed to seek out risk and challenge, they need it to learn and grow and gain confidence.

— Michaela Strachan

When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense…

— Gever Tulley

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of…

— Maria Montessori

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She's ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms…

— John Holt

A fearful child cannot learn.

— Goldie Hawn

Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles…

— John W Holt Jr

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with…

— Sigmund Freud

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked…

— Robert M. Lindner