“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
Stanley Kubrick
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“I don't know what it like to raise a kid but even so, I want to believe that kids out there should be taught not to know what is right or wrong, rather to think and do what is right and what is wrong.”
J C A Rowe
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
James Matthew Barrie
“All I worried about was what (Owings) was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.”
Dan Gable
“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
Phyllis Diller
