1. “Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.”

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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2. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”

— Robert Munsch

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3. “Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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4. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

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5. “Children require long, uninterrupted periods of play and exploration.”

— Jean Piaget

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6. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

— Dr. Seuss

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7. “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

— Maria Montessori

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8. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

— Dr. Seuss

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9. “Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”

— Maria Montessori

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10. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

— Dr. Seuss

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11. “The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.”

— Maria Montessori

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12. “When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing.”

— Maria Montessori

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13. “If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!”

— D.L. Moody

14. “While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.”

— Abdul Kalam

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15. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”

— C. S. Lewis

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16. “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

— Roald Dahl

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17. “Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.”

— Andy Stanley

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18. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

19. “The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

— Socrates

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20. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

— Fred Rogers

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21. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

— Margaret Mead

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22. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Frederick Douglass

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23. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

— Dr. Seuss

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24. “There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.”

— Maria Montessori

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25. “Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.”

— Maria Montessori

26. “There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”

— Dave Willis

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27. “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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28. “Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.”

— Jack Ma

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29. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.”

— A. A. Milne

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30. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

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31. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

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32. “Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

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33. “Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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34. “Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.”

— Desmond Tutu

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35. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

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36. “I love my son and am proud of my son.”

— Robert H. Schuller

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37. “Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by ‘reality’ or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

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38. “Challenging kids are lacking the skills of flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, skills most of us take for granted.”

— Ross W. Greene

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39. “There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.”

— N.K. Jemisin

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40. “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”

— Walt Disney

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41. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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42. “I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”

— J.K. Rowling

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43. “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

— Khalil Gibran

44. “All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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45. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

— Dr. Seuss

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46. “Curriculum should help children gain a deeper and fuller understanding of their own experiences.”

— Lilian Katz

47. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

— A. A. Milne

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48. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”

— Denis Waitley

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49. “Every war is a war against children.”

— Eglantyne Jebb

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50. “Play is the work of childhood.”

— Jean Piaget

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