Teaching children Quote by Robin Hobb

“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.”

— Stephen King

“It is foolish to teach a person a lesson by killing them. For they’d be too dead to learn anything.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.”

— Nescio

“What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me. ”

— Lorrie Moore

“Children always spoke the truth, especially when it was inconvenient for everyone else.”

— K.J. Colt

“If you teach your children, teach them the Truth of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We were children then. We are allowed to make mistakes, to figure out who we wish to be.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“It was hard to explain, but there just seemed to be something in the air here. Whatever it was, it made everyone more serious…

— Amanda Ripley

“We thought all this teach­ing was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?”

— Daniel Quinn

“I do not believe in writing down to children but rather up to their intelligence.”

— D.L. Alexander

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them…

— Will Cuppy