Jane Addams Quotes

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.

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

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I think children learn through their parents.

It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

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

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.

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.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

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

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

We are our children's first teachers.

One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

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

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

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

We must become the people we want our children to be.