Daniel Quinn Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Ideas, People

  "Schooling: The Hidden Agenda". Daniel Quinn's Address at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in Vancouver, Canada, www.ishmael.org. August 16, 1997.

• From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, World, Fantastic

• If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Future, People

• Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Home, Needs

• We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Responsibility, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

• May the forests be with you and with your children.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, May, Forests

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