"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary"

"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"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

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

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

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

"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"

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

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

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