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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. -- Elbert Hubbard
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers. -- L. Tom Perry
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past... -- Arthur C. Clarke
Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. -- Roger Ebert
I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life. -- Eva LaRue
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. -- Mary Garden
For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate. -- Preston Sturges
I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day. -- Joseph Mawle
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere. -- Robert Pinsky
When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance. -- Caroll Spinney
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. -- Jerome Bruner
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. -- Betty Smith
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. -- Maria Montessori
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas. -- Gerhard E Frost
Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy. -- Warren Farrell
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much. -- Alice Moore Hubbard
What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test. -- Claire McCaskill
Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table. -- Gurney Williams
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. -- Al Green
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. -- Maria Montessori

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