Immanuel Kant Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Men, Naughty

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.84, Courier Corporation

• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Children, Truth

  "Gems of Thought" edited by Charles Northend, 1888.

• The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Knowing, Kind

• Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Giving, Parent

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