Children Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

— John Ruskin

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

— Hyman Rickover

I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of freeing children…

— Richard Dawkins

The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to…

— Lydia M. Child

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it…

— Laurens van der Post

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present…

— Immanuel Kant

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

— Patsy Mink

Parents and families know best, and they should be in control of their individual child's education.

— Katie Britt

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

— John Goodlad

The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal…

— John Swett