Angelina Grimke Quotes

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.