Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from read more

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve read more

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.