Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

Kids are important.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Let all children come unto me.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

Read good, big important things.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.