Children Quote by Joseph Joubert

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words,…

— Brigham Young

Our children should not be told what to think but rather how to reason.

— Margaret Brennan

“children cannot reason abstractly until age 11 at the earliest Standard”

— Terry Marselle

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

— Guy Jenkin

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

— John Mason Brown

“They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they…

— Thomas W. Phelan

“Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By explaining moral principles, parents encourage their children to…

— Adam Grant

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

— Noah Webster

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

— Todd Bridges

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind…

— John B. S. Haldane

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who…

— Immanuel Kant