We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.
Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart
Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.
I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.
Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than it. It's just kind of like human beings. The way you look at money or the way you look at the success of your child, you always want to make sure that as far as it gets, it can protect itself and continue forward. So I think any type of intelligence, no matter what it is, is going to have this very basic principle to protect the power that it has gained.
Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.
My mom started understanding how many people take advantage of a child, so she hired smart people to protect me in that way. I'm happy that when I was younger, people protected me and put me in a position where I can now control my music.