Children Learn

Famous quotes containing the words children and/or learn:

    “A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie.... Children have been treated ... as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.”
    —Beatrix Campbell (b. 1947)

    “If parents award freedom regardless of whether their children have demonstrated an ability to handle it, children never learn to see a clear link between responsible behavior and adult privileges.”
    —Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)