Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

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

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

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

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl’s intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."