Jane Addams Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

  Jane Addams

  Education, Children, Future

• With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

  Jane Addams

  Mother, Children, Stupid

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.109, Open Road Media

• Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

  Jane Addams

  Children, Attitude, Soon Enough

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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