Book Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They…

— Lev Grossman

All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people…

— William J. Clinton

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit" book; and…

— Charlotte Mason

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to…

— Seymour Papert

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever…

— Richard Mitchell

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!”

— Penny Kittle

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart…

— Maurice Sendak

“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

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to…

— Orville Prescott