"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established"

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

"I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal"

"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"

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals"

"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"