Lauren Myracle Quotes

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Education is freedom.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

Freedom can occur only through education.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

I tried to do things independently with each child.

Only the educated are free.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush--and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she's a kid who can.

A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.