Petrus Paulus Vergerius Quotes

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

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

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

...The wisest of all ages have acknowledged that the most important period in human education is in childhood.. - - This most important part of education is left entirely in the hands of the mother. She prepares the soil for future culture.... But the mother cannot give what she does not possess; weakness cannot impart strength.

During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

In life we always have to learn something, I learn everything daily.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Education forms the common mind.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.