Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.
I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
