John Dewey Quotes

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

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

I have very little patience with children.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

These are our children. We will all profit by and pay for whatever they become.

Kids are important.

For me, Barca was where I grew up since I was tiny, from eight years old.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Babies, they learn how to walk and they are already trying to run away. You can't reach the doorknob, you only know us, think it through.

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.