Friday, November 30, 2012

Wise quotes on Children and Education



Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” 
― Margaret Mead


“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... 
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.” 
― Kahlil Gibran




“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

"Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." —Zen Proverb

"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."—James Truslow Adams

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." —Pearl S. Buck





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