Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.
Think of the depressing contrast between the radiant intelligence of a healthy child and the feeble intellectual powers of the average adult.[Denken Sie an den betrübenden Kontrast zwischen der strahlenden Intelligenz eines gesunden Kindes und der Denkschwäche des durchschnittlichen Erwachsenen.]
There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him.
The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
The small world of the child, the familiar surroundings these form the model of the big world.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as a man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The good man signed the papers with the innocence of a child who does what his mother orders without question.[Le bonhomme signait avec l’innocence d’un enfant qui fait ce que sa mère lui ordonne de faire.]
The child must be brought up free (that he allow others to be free).
Teach your child to hold his tongue, he’l learn fast enough to speak.
Privately I consider religion to be a load of bollix, but when you have a sobbing five-year-old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.
One of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself.