Anne Sullivan Quotes

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

Fear has never educated a child. Fear has never built a home.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

We all want to raise our children well.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.