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Quotations: Education, child-rearing, role models

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To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and president (1858-1919)

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
— Plutarch, Greek biographer, philosopher and priest of Apollo (45-125 A.D.)

Don't worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you.
— Robert Fulghum, American author (b. 1937)

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
— Proverbs, 22:6

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American novelist and poet (1883-1931)

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
— John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704)

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
— Peter de Vries, American novelist (1910-1993)

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy: that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.
— Plato, Greek philosopher (c. 428-c. 348)

Children need models rather than critics.
— Joseph Joubert, French essayist (1752-1824)

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
— Unknown

It takes a long time to grow young.
— Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973)

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
— Gertrude Stein, American writer (1874-1946)

It takes a whole village to raise a child.
— Ashanti proverb

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.''
— Hiram Powers, American sculptor (1805-1873)

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.''
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.)

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
— Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist, author (1903-1990)

Example has more followers than reason.
— Christian Nevell Bovee, American author and lawyer (1820-1904)

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
— Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)

If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.
— Mohandas Gandhi, Indian nonviolent civil rights leader (1869-1948)

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, Supreme Court justice (1841-1935)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
— Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American anarchist writer, lecturer and activist (1869-1940)

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