Dean Inge Quotes

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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

I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I have five kids, and there are five totally different people in my house.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

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

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

I'm the way my father taught me to be.

People ask me 'Are you copying your dad?' It is in my blood. I have got royal blood coursing through my veins. I can't help myself doing what my father did.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

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

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.