Children & Education

A boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for an allowance and requests a loan. (18)

Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert (8)

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - Yeats (15)

Every child is artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up. - Picasso (16)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (19)

Experience is something we get looking for something else. (9)

Experience is something we like to call our mistakes. (9)

Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin (16)

Goals are dreams with deadlines. (5)

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it. - Truman (27)

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them. (12)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein (34)

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb (14)

One who learns in order to teach will be granted the opportunity both to learn and teach. (17)

Music is the universal language of mankind - poetry their universal pastime and delight. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (16)

Remember who you knew you were when you were a child. (11)

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. (9)

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. - Chinese Proverb (13)

The best gifts to give our children - roots and wings. (10)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt (15)

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Jefferson (18)

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. - Emerson (19)

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.- Marcel Proust (22)

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future. - Graham Greene (18)

This would be a better world for children if parents had to eat the spinach.- Groucho Marx (17)

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Emerson (13)

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you must be in their lives today.(14)

Understanding is a deep river running through the heart; learn to draw from it and you will be wise. (19)

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. (9)

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. - Kahil Gibran (45)

Your teacher can open the door, but you must enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb (14)

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