Add Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to…

— John Holt

The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those…

— Anna Kavan

“As there is no evil however small but may cause him to groan under it, who has his heart undisciplined, so there is no…

— Kaiten Nukariya

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience…

— Charles Spurgeon

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of…

— C. S. Lewis

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

— Maurice Sendak

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not…

— Erik Erikson

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

I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they…

— Muriel Wace

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

— Maria Montessori

We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn…

— Karl A. Menninger

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing…

— Joyce Cary