Art Quote by W. W. Sawyer

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

“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

“A bad teacher will will aim at imposing his opinion, and turning out a set of pupils all of whom will give the same…

— Bertrand Russell

[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

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something,…

— Bobby Knight

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach…

— Magnus Scheving

“Many parents as well as teachers refuse to place this responsibility upon children for fear of the mistakes that they will make. On account…

— Frank Morton McMurry

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right…

— Sydney J. Harris

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

— Wes Fesler

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

— S. I. Hayakawa

“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is…

— Edward Lee Thorndike

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

— Johnny Hunt