Children Learning Quotes - Page 5

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

  349 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Nice, Self Esteem

  156 Copy quote

• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Children

  386 Copy quote

• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

  30 Copy quote

• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

  170 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

  2752 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  233 Copy quote

• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  171 Copy quote

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  336 Copy quote
• 

  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

  456 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  304 Copy quote

• 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.

  65 Copy quote

  Show source