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Letter "C" » Children
«If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.»
Author: Barbara Bush
| About:
Children,
Men
| Keywords:
capabilities, Human potential, perceived, possessing, potentials, strengths, thrive, unlimited, unresponsive, weaknesses
«I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.»
Author: Dr. Haim Ginott
| About:
Children,
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
classroom, classrooms, crisis, crisis in, daily, decides, decisive, element, escalate, escalated, frightening, heal, humanize, humanized, humanizing, humiliate, humiliated, humor, inspiration, instrument, instrument of torture, in all, In the Mood, joyous, miserable, mood, possess, response, situations, teacher, The Crisis, tool, torture, tortures, torturing, tremendous, weather, weathered, weathers
«If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
Makers, salvation, The Children, The Makers
«If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Gifts
| Keywords:
adult, companionship, excitement, inborn, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers
«I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.»
«I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.»
«If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, (both) the beloved and the hated; and (if) the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit (that) which he hath,»
«If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Children,
Social service
| Keywords:
half-hour, serviceable
«If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold»
«If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.»
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