Jesuit Maxim Quotes

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

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

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Children learn what they live.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

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

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

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

I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don't have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it's really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.