Jane Addams Quotes

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

We all want to raise our children well.

Children are the main thing in life.

Home is really where education does begin.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

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.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

I've learned a lot from my parents.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

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

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

You learn stuff from your kids, every day.