"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones"

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

"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"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage"

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance"

"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 wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences"

"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do"