"One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam"

"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"

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

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"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"

"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more"

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves"

"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"