Quotes about children
children parent use
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit. Plato
children teaching exercise
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
children father people
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.
children war sleep
And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
children men differences
The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.
children light glowing
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
children childhood mind
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
children men drunk
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
children mind essentials
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.
children men old-man
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
children men honest
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
children wine
There is truth in wine and children
children play force
Not by force shall the children learn, but through play
children educational teaching
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
children philosophical men
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
children passion reality
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
children educational play
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
children educational character
And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
children words-of-wisdom may
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
children play-time more-time
Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it. Philip Zimbardo
children husband lying
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium. Philip Larkin
children growing-up simple
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
children grew hated
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
children parent awakening
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. Philip Seymour Hoffman
children real school
Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness. Paulo Freire
children understanding world
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
children people trying
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. Paula Malcomson
children book reading
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. Paula Fox
children wings giving
There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in. Paula Deen
children grateful wife
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else. Paul Weller
children thinking car
What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make Phil Harding
children land meals
Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal
children thinking parent
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt. Phil McGraw