Children Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Parents must teach their kids about questioning assumption and social norms, showing their kids how to think critically and be skeptical of claims that…

— Dan Arel

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

— Clarence Darrow

“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

[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

“What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.”

— Dale McGowan

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

“Both scepticism and wonder are skills that need honing and practice. Their harmonious marriage within the mind of every schoolchild ought to be a…

— Carl Sagan

“Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to…

— Margaret Mead

There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes,…

— Anthony Standen

“Children are rarely taught critical thinking anymore, and society has become so antirational that basic reason and evidence are the new counterculture: thought is…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Margaret Brennan