#child

Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#fear #hope #magic #monsters #dreams

tis true, 'tis pity, and 'tis pity, 'tis true.' what delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs. Harmon Andrews! ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#anne-shirley #childhood-favorites #dreams

On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race, held in the miniscule hands of these newborns. ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#hope #new-beginnings #dreams

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft to be seated on children's eyes. ↗

— Suman Pokhrel

#dreams

Always dream big and dare to believe! ↗

— Melinda Rabin

#dragons #poetry #dreams

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #expose #extraordinary #gift #heart

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#education #injustice #punishment #education

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford... ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#child #clockwork-prince #funny #funny

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#comprehension #education #fiction #learning #nonfiction

We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in. ↗

— John Holt

#education #education