Children Quote by Judith C. Waller

Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very,…

— Mark Haddon

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

— Greg Smith

“One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience…

— Catherine the Great

With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls… Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.

— Louise Hart

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

— Gilbert Highet

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

— W. W. Sawyer