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"Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous."
"Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear."
"The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives."
"When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing"
"We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life."
"The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him."
"For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst for fellowship with the Lord of our souls, redeemed by his blood. By tapping into the channel by which we commune with the One who calls his children “friends,” we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life's path."
"Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program."
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
"Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas."
"It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world."
"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."
"Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick."
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
"As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child."
"We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace."
"When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for."
"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."
"The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material"
