“ An uncorked kid to me is an expression as to who they truly are and isn't it that that as adults we strive to achieve throughout our whole lives? Lehla Eldridge
“ When I look at a child, I see a living, breathing person, made in God's image, for whom God has a plan. As parent educators, we need to embrace a new notion of learning...we need to engage the hearten… Elizabeth Foss
“ This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his Creator. Elizabeth Foss
“ Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meetingby a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he realized that… John Holt
“ For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, "Because they're scared." I used to suspect that children's defeatism had somethi… John Holt
“ Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do… Charlotte M. Mason
“ It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a moral… John Stuart Mill
“ Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that t… Suzy Kassem
“ Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical,… Charlotte M. Mason
“ This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling proph… John Holt
“ On building homes for fallen angels:When I was small - I sought a home,a place to go and rest my bones.Then founded something, of my own,I lived among the restless stones.If seeking leads you back to… Will Advise
“ Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. Flannery O'Connor
“ I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. Philip Larkin
“ Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. W.B. Yeats
“ The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion… Ramez Naam
“ A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the v… Jean Cocteau
“ [Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives. Nancy E. Turner
“ It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time… George Eliot
