Capacity Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding,…

— Jim Butcher

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

— Doris Lessing

“Children can be very early taught...that they can hereafter find their chief happiness in giving up their will to God, and in living to…

— Beecher, Catharine E. (Catharine Esther

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and…

— Jean Piaget

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as…

— Charlotte Mason

“Many parents as well as teachers refuse to place this responsibility upon children for fear of the mistakes that they will make. On account…

— Frank Morton McMurry

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

— Benjamin E. Mays

“Parents can raise children who are responsible, self-disciplined, and cooperative without relying on the weapon of fear; they can learn how to influence children…

— Thomas Gordon

“The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than…

— Stefan Molyneux

“Developing boundaries in young children is that proverbial ounce of prevention. If we teach responsibility, limit setting, and delay of gratification early on, the…

— Henry Cloud

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion…

— Ellen Key