Lydia M. Child Quotes

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

Let our children be taught love love love.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

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.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

I don’t want the Government to teach my kids’ family values.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.