Age Appropriate Education Quotes

These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like.

One of my own kids was in a class with a friend who had two mums, and that was absolutely normal right from a very young age. I think it's important that we absolutely accept equality in every area whilst at the same time respecting that parents may have concerns about how young their children are when they become aware of these things.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

When people learn that I'm a qualified primary school teacher, I'm often met with surprise and a list of questions, including, 'How do the children react? How do you do it?' Children are some of the most open and inclusive individuals. It's often us adults who have difficulties in accepting difference.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

People say, 'Respect your elders,' but I always go, 'Respect your young people because they are our future.'

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

You cannot leave the pressure and responsibility on young people in general. Young people must enter a safe and protected environment to be able to pass and fail so, little by little, they can adapt.

Try and get the kid protected against the stupidity of adults.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.