"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"