Previous Quotes of the Month for 2019
January/February
"A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March
"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."
- John Holt
April
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
- Winston Churchill
May
"Shamefully, human beings are the only mammals to separate mothers from their infants. Dr. John Krystal, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, described the impact of maternal separation on the infant as 'profound', citing the recent discovery that the autonomic activity (heart rate and other involuntary nervous system activity) of two-day-old sleeping babies is 176 per cent higher during maternal separation."
- Antonella Gambotto-Burke,
Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution
June
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
- Lady Bird Johnson
August
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
September
"What is lovely about children is that they can make such a production, such a big deal, out of everything, or nothing. ... All that energy and foolishness, all that curiosity, questions, talk, all those fierce passions, inconsolable sorrows, immoderate joys, seem to many a nuisance to be endured, if not a disease to be cured. To me they are a national asset, a treasure beyond price."
- John Holt,
How Children Learn
October
"I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions."
- Hayao Miyazaki
November
"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
- George Bernard Shaw
More Quotes of the MonthDecember
"One generation of deeply loving parents would change the brain of the next generation, and with that, the world."
- Charles Raison, M.D.,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine