I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
It's so inspiring to be able to look a child in the eyes and just shake their hands and see the disbelief that this is actually happening.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
I want to venture out into music education for kids. As a child, I was discouraged by a lack of money, and now I want to use my platform to give back to kids without resources.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
As a mom, I just can't imagine having a child who would feel discriminated against for any reason, and I would want my child in a safe environment.
I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.
