Nurturing Young Minds Quotes

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

Above all, let us pray for our children.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little to do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with worth inside of heads and hearts.

My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was important. My mother made me feel that I was important as a thinker at four-years-old. And I instill that within my students everyday.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don't have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn't.

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.