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[Quote No.32535] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If it [education] is to be really successful it must be suitable, and therefore interesting, to children, and must last through life." - Sir John Lubbock
(1834 – 1913), English banker, member of Parliament, statesman, and naturalist. Quote from his book ‘The Pleasures of Life’ (2 vol., 1887–89).
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[Quote No.32557] Need Area: Friends > Children
"School education should be first and foremost about helping us meet all our needs in life rather than being as Locke said 'schools fit us for the university [office or factory] rather than for the world.' " - Ben O'Grady
Teacher and Founder of imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.32565] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[In education] The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew. Children are by nature eager for information. They are always putting questions. This ought to be encouraged. In fact, we may to a great extent trust to their instincts, and in that case they will do much to educate themselves. Too often, however, the acquirement of knowledge is placed before them in a form so irksome and fatiguing that all desire for information is choked, or even crushed out; so that our schools, in fact, become places for the discouragement of learning, and thus produce the very opposite effect from that at which we aim. In short, children should be trained to observe and to think, for in that way there would be opened out to them a source of the purest enjoyment for leisure hours, and the wisest judgment in the work of life." - Sir John Lubbock
(1834 – 1913), English banker, member of Parliament, statesman, and naturalist. Quote from his book ‘The Pleasures of Life’ (2 vol., 1887–89).
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[Quote No.32566] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[In education, girls and] Boys are given the impression that the masters know everything. If, on the contrary, the great lesson impressed on them was that what we know is as nothing to what we do not know, that the 'great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before us,' surely this would prove a great stimulus, and many would be nobly anxious to enlarge the boundaries of human knowledge, and extend the intellectual kingdom of man. Philosophy, says Aristotle, begins in wonder, for Iris is the child of Thaumas." - Sir John Lubbock
(1834 – 1913), English banker, member of Parliament, statesman, and naturalist. Quote from his book ‘The Pleasures of Life’ (2 vol., 1887–89).
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[Quote No.32570] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If we succeed in giving the love of learning [observing, questioning, imagining, discovering, linking, understanding and knowing], the learning itself is sure to follow." - Sir John Lubbock
(1834 – 1913), English banker, member of Parliament, statesman, and naturalist. Quote from his book ‘The Pleasures of Life’ (2 vol., 1887–89).
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[Quote No.32575] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is remarkable, and encouraging, how many of the greatest men [and women] have risen from the lowest rank, and triumphed over obstacles which might well have seemed insurmountable... To take men of Science only. Ray was the son of a blacksmith, Watt of a shipwright, Franklin of a tallow-chandler, Dalton of a handloom weaver, Frauenhofer of a glazier, Laplace of a farmer, Linnaeus of a poor curate, Faraday of a blacksmith, Lamarck of a banker's clerk; Davy was an apothecary's assistant, Galileo, Kepler, Sprengel, Cuvier, and Sir W. Herschel were all children of very poor parents." - Sir John Lubbock
(1834 – 1913), English banker, member of Parliament, statesman, and naturalist. Quote from his book ‘The Pleasures of Life’ (2 vol., 1887–89).
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[Quote No.32655] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804 - 1881), novelist and English Prime Minister.
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[Quote No.32698] Need Area: Friends > Children
"You cannot help men [women or children] permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves [because you then create dependent, unempowered adults rather than independent, empowered and proud people]." - Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President
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[Quote No.32927] Need Area: Friends > Children
"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own." - Anne Ridler

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[Quote No.32987] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves." - Demosthenes

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[Quote No.33112] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[Poem:]

Ah! What would the world be to us,
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us,
Worse than the dark before.

" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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[Quote No.33237] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth." - Peter Ustinov

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[Quote No.33242] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The greatest glory of a free-born people, is to transmit that freedom to their children." - William Havard

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[Quote No.33321] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A good example is far better than [just] a good precept." - Dwight L. Moody

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[Quote No.33323] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The transfer, by the parents, of so much of their own authority and responsibility to the schools is in most ways a cowardly and contemptible business." - John Holt
Quote from the book, 'What Do I Do Monday?', 1970.
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[Quote No.33346] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[Quote No.33381] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The tree must be bent while it is young." - German Proverb

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[Quote No.33394] Need Area: Friends > Children
"By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof." - French Proverb

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[Quote No.33548] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present." - Ellen Key

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[Quote No.33561] Need Area: Friends > Children
"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln

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[Quote No.33591] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton
(1886 - 1967), American author and advertising expert.
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[Quote No.33657] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I don't know any other way to lead but by example. " - Don Shula
(1930 - ), American football coach.
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[Quote No.33830] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The family is the nucleus of civilization." - William J. Durant

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[Quote No.33933] Need Area: Friends > Children
"You should study not only that you become a mother [or father] when your child is born, but also that you become a child." - Dogen

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[Quote No.34027] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)
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[Quote No.34299] Need Area: Friends > Children
"...we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. [It is an individual choice repeated almost daily! Providing an example of those choices, the reasoning behind them and the self-discipline that sustains them, is part of being a good parent, neighbour and citizen.]" - Thomas Paine
(1737 - 1809)
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[Quote No.34405] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves." - Elbert Hubbard

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[Quote No.34407] Need Area: Friends > Children
"[To many young males] The proper study of mankind is woman." - Henry Brooks Adams

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[Quote No.34409] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The best way of learning to be an independent [individual or] sovereign state is to be an independent [individual or] sovereign state!" - Kwame Nkrumah

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[Quote No.34517] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty." - Marcus T. Cicero

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[Quote No.34567] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have [often] poisoned the fountain." - John Locke

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[Quote No.34623] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that." - Charles Buxton

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[Quote No.34643] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Noble fathers [and mothers] have noble children. [Therefore to have noble children, be noble!]" - Euripides

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[Quote No.34750] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Americans [and most other Westerners], indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer." - Katharine Whitehorn

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[Quote No.34838] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A man [or woman] cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family." - Thomas Scott

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[Quote No.34900] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother [and vice versa]." - Theodore M. Hesburgh

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[Quote No.34920] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children are poor men's riches." - John Ray

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[Quote No.34971] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Applaud us when we run; Console us when we fall; Cheer us when we recover." - Edmund Burke

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[Quote No.35011] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - George Santayana

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[Quote No.35012] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When a nation's young men [and women] are conservative [and not experimenting], its funeral bell is already rung." - Henry Ward Beecher

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[Quote No.35103] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. [Any parent, especially of a teenager, will have the scars to prove it. Is this bad? Not necessarily. Disagreements with your children, can give you an opportunity to calmly teach by modelling Imagi-Native' 'LIFE' skills - i.e. L= learn more about each other's needs and desires and the challenges to meeting these, I= imagine/brainstorm goals and plans to overcome the challenges so both win, F= focus consistently and persistently on the steps each must carry out each day, E= evolve into wiser, more capable, happier selves with a better relationship.] " - Peter Ustinov

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[Quote No.35177] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him [or her]." - Dr. Henker

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[Quote No.35312] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Example has more followers than reason. We [especially children] unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire." - Christian Nevell Bovee

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[Quote No.35549] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Actually, there is only one first question of government [parents], and it is 'How should we live?' or 'What kind of people do we want our citizens [children] to be?' [if you believe that children are parents' play-things and their rights are given to them by their parental overlords. If however you believe in inalienable human rights that each child is born with, the key question for any parent should be 'How can we support each child's inalienable rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of their subjective happiness and the protection of their personal property?'] " - George F. Will

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[Quote No.35622] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde

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[Quote No.35652] Need Area: Friends > Children
"At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenius or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life..." - Ben Franklin
[1706 – 1790], American scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, philosopher, musician and economist, discussing his father and childhood.
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[Quote No.35693] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Teach you children poetry [and eloquent, wise quotations]; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary." - Sir Walter Scott

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