Thoughts of great people about children, education and childhood. "The call is to serve children." Essay

Miracles happen only in childhood.
Vladislav Grzegorchik

Childhood is the light at the beginning of the tunnel.
Dmitry Pashkov

Fruits taste best to us when they are running out; children are most beautiful when childhood ends.
Seneca

Childhood - happiest years life, but not for.
Michael Moorcock

Childhood: The time of life when all you have to do to lose weight is take a bath.
Richard Zera

Children have neither a past nor a future, but, unlike us adults, they know how to use the present.
Jean La Bruyère

Babies are innocent in their bodily weakness, not in their soul.
Augustine the Blessed

Children are insolent, fastidious, quick-tempered, envious, curious, self-serving, lazy, frivolous, cowardly, intemperate, deceitful and secretive; they easily burst into laughter or, over trifles, indulge in immoderate joy or bitter sadness, cannot endure pain and love to inflict it - they are already people.
Jean La Bruyère

No wonder people are so terrible when they have to start life as children.
Kingsley Amis

The boy screams: “No! Two versus one!" He doesn't know that this is the only way.
Ramon Gomez de la Serna

When I was a girl, I only had two girlfriends, and even then they were imaginary. And they only played with each other.
Rita Rudner

The amusements of adults are called business; they are also business for children.
Augustine the Blessed

My mother served what was left of dinner for thirty years. Nobody ever saw the dinner itself.
Calvin Trillin

Every child is an artist. is to remain an artist, coming out of childhood.
Pablo Picasso

Children's lies and sincerity of adults are two shortcomings that are not forgiven.
Zdislav Kalandkiewicz

As a child, he suffered a concussion and since then believed everything that is written in the Sunday papers.
George Aid

Who needs him - such a baby, through whose mouth the truth speaks?
Leonid Leonidov

Children are angels whose wings shorten as their arms and legs grow.

Children are our consolation in old age, and help us reach it faster.
Lionel Kaufman

Children are good or bad, but grandchildren are always amazing.
Ludwik Hirschfeld

Late children are early orphans.
Benjamin Franklin

Love is the last and most severe childhood illness.

Difficult childhood never ends.
Jerzy Urban

Childhood is freedom from age.
Arkady Davidovich

Childhood is a promise that never comes true.
Ken Hill

In the theater of life, the only real spectators are children.
Vladislav Gzheshchik

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like years.
Elinor Farjeon

If you didn't have a bike as a child and now you have a BMW 745, you still didn't have a bike as a child.
Unknown author

When you finally return to your old home, it turns out that what you were looking for was not your old home, but your childhood.
Sam Ewing

First we part with childhood, and then with youth.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Childhood should be given the greatest respect.
Juvenal Decim Junius

It is better to cry in childhood than in old age.
Unknown author

Human customs and laws are such that if at the beginning of growth, in childhood itself, in the prime of youth, when the mind and reason are very receptive and not overloaded, when talent and abilities are in their prime - if at this time a person does not comprehend anything in the sciences, then will not comprehend and subsequently during a long life.
As-Samarkandi

Only that in a person is firmly and reliably absorbed into him at the first time of his life.
Jan Amos Comenius

Let childhood mature in childhood.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But it's not. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often - freedom.
Immanuel Kant

In the very early childhood, heroic feelings should already be laid, setting the soul on exploits of love and nobility. And does history provide few examples of heroes?
Nikolay Vasilievich Shelgunov

Childhood is that great time of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future of a moral person.
Nikolay Vasilievich Shelgunov

The song that a mother sings at the cradle accompanies a person all his life, to the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher

Respect... pure, clear, undefiled holy childhood!
Janusz Korczak

The years of childhood are, first of all, upbringing.

Many troubles have their roots precisely in the fact that a person from childhood is not taught to control his desires, they are not taught to correctly relate to the concepts of can, must, cannot.
Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

By impoverishing the world of childhood, we make it difficult for the child to enter society, into the collective.
Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

Over the years, emptiness and disappointment form in those young people whose childhood and adolescence was a thoughtless satisfaction of their needs.
Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

In children's fantasies, there are almost always situations in which the child rules over someone.
Alfred Adler

Childhood is a time of many questions, opportunities and consequences.
Alfred Adler

Poor is the childhood that is sacrificed to mature years.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Conscious childishness is a glory, not a shame of a person.
Georges Bataille

Snow, in other words - childhood, in other words - happiness.
Emil Michel Cioran

Childhood is when everything is amazing and nothing is surprising.
A. Rivarol

Childhood is a state into which one cannot return, but one can fall into it.
author unknown

Childhood is a butterfly eager to burn its white wings in the flames of youth.
A. Bertrand

Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But it's not. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often - freedom.
I. Kant

"Let childhood mature in children"

Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Life is moving forward with great speed, and its modern way of life makes us adapt to the peculiarities of scientific and technological progress, the pace and rhythm of life. In this regard, many parents find themselves in a situation of an endless cycle of overly saturated life. Adults gradually begin to demand from their children quick adaptation, active understanding, and therefore instant maturation, and ideal behavior. And as a result, we find problems in the relationship between generations.

What do parents want? For children to understand their parents.

What do kids want? For parents to understand their children.

Where to find this connecting thread of mutual understanding between children and parents? Let's try to figure it out.

What life experience does the parent have and what life experience does the child have? The parent already has the experience of a child, a schoolchild, a teenager, an applicant, a student, a parent, a specialist in any field of activity, work experience, possibly in several organizations. A child in this vast world has so far only the experience of a child. And those who are older, the experience of a schoolboy. However, the parent wants the child to behave “in an adult way” at the stage of childhood. Agreeing to behave like an adult, the child wants to be treated like an adult, namely: to take into account his opinion, respect his choice, believe in him. The parent, on the other hand, understands that his child is essentially only a child and establishes taboos on most issues, topics and problems. This lump of misunderstanding grows and grows.

The first thing that is important for a parent to understand is that a child has the right to remain a child until adulthood, but with gradual maturation. Secondly, for his future well-being, the child is obliged to “play enough” in different games and gradually and “portionedly” get ideas about adult life, so that later in the future in this very adult life he wants to be an adult and adequate person. And thirdly, the child needs help in choosing games, because the child, being a child, does not know how to “filter” the flow of information.

It is very important that the parent explain to the child about the problems of adult life according to the level of his development, so that, on the one hand, he speaks honestly, and on the other hand, avoiding horrors and “horror stories” and, of course, as calmly as possible.

As for games and toys, the child, firstly, simply needs at least one of the family members to play with the child and support his game. Secondly, games and toys should be appropriate for the age of the child. It would seem that a doll is a doll, and a machine is a machine. But there are cars and dolls for children 2-3 years old, and there are dolls and cars for children 7-8 years old. And they are completely different age groups. Don't buy toys that are older than your child. Thirdly, if you want to offer your child any computer game, then first play it yourself. Evaluate the level of this game on the following points: 1) benefits and development for the child, 2) lack of aggression in any form: shooting, aggressive pursuit of the hero of the game, destroying someone, something, and so on, 3) colors: drawings games should not be too bright and too gloomy. And, of course, there should be a time limit for playing computer games- less is better.

But there should be as many mobile and intellectual games, board games and educational games as possible and without age restrictions.

“Nature wants children to be children before they are adults. Let childhood mature in children.”

Childhood should be given the greatest respect.

Juvenal Decim Junius

Let childhood mature in childhood.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Childhood is that great time of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future of a moral person.

Nikolay Vasilievich Shelgunov

Childhood is a time of many questions, opportunities and consequences.

Alfred Adler

As it should be in childhood, we were afraid of many things, but every day we went to meet our fears, as if there was nothing special about it. The normal way of a child's existence.

Max Frei "The Book of Solitudes"

Don't walk in the mud, said the Pope.

“I just wanted to walk on the rainbow,” the Boy explained.

And he thought to himself that, probably, a person grows up when he stops noticing a rainbow in a puddle of gasoline.

All children under five years old are on full guard. For example, when you were Gracie's age, you talked to the moon. Invited her to my birthday party and then cried because she didn't show up.

Sue Townsend "Adrian Mole: The Prostration Years"

And yet it must be admitted that the books that I read as an adult could not be compared in terms of the strength of their impact on my consciousness with those that I read as a child.

Diana Setterfield "The Thirteenth Tale"

What made you happy in childhood is never forgotten.

Maria Semenova "Wolfhound. Peace on the road"

… Attitude towards fireworks determines the degree of childish enthusiasm that remains in a person.

Zoya Heller. Chronicle of a scandal

After all, in order to remain a children's author, one must not only be able to be a child and see the world as a bright, magical kingdom permeated with miracles, one must be able to store in his heart inexhaustible reserves of kindness, a scattering of golden chuckles, real joy and very wise love. And never lose them, faced with troubles, learning to lose, meeting pain and grief with an open chest, in which there is still warmth, in which children's voices sound like pipes, in which a small but real sun shines.

Al Quotion "Spare Part of Improvisation"

Why is life mocking us all the time? It overtakes us at a tender age and sows in our childish soul a certain image, or smell, or sound, and leaves it in our memory. And that moment was happiness. You realize it later, when it's too late. You are already far away: thousands of kilometers from this image, sound, smell. And there is no return to them.

Alessandro Baricco "Castles of Wrath"

Was it not me, as a junior schoolgirl, who was waiting for the first autumn leaf fall? After all, then my friends and I ran to the park and danced and circled under the falling leaves, with our heads up. If the sheet covered the eye like a pirate blotch - here it is a happy omen! After all, you are a one-eyed pirate, which means that treasures are waiting for you somewhere.

As we age, we lose many important qualities. And one of them is the gift of being happy just like that. To catch small pleasures on a hook and look at them with delight for a long time.

Nadia Yasminska "Marshmallow Signs"

The world in childhood is seen as a bright fragrant flower in which you yourself are the core.

Oleg Roy "Letters from the Past"

“Dad, do dragons exist?” the boy asked.

“No,” Dad replied.

— Not at all?

“Absolutely,” said the father, and left.

“Don’t be offended, he just got too old,” the boy whispered to the dragon. And he looked knowingly from the page in black letters.

Nadia Yasminska "Beads and drops"

"That's how you grow up," she suddenly realized. “Not when you reach a certain number of years. And then, when a sadness appears somewhere inside, and you know that now it will always be with you. Or to death, or to senile insanity. In the meantime, there is no sadness, you are still a child ...

Nadeya Yasminska "Worn out sandals"

The collection includes phrases and quotes about childhood and children:

• I am growing. I judge this by the fact that I have ceased to understand anything. "Pshekrui"
• Marriage is our last and best chance to grow up. Joseph Barth
• Miracles happen only in childhood. Vladislav Grzegorchik
• In children's fantasies, there are almost always situations in which the child rules over someone. Alfred Adler
• A person becomes an adult on the day when for the first time he sincerely laughs - at himself. Ethel Barrymore

• As a child, I did what my father wanted. Now I do what my son wants. When will I do what I want? Sam Levenson
• Every young man has a passion, and the best of them is the passion for the art of making money. Jack Hurley, American boxing manager
• In the theater of life, the only real spectators are children. Vladislav Gzheshchik
• Difficult childhood never ends. Jerzy Urban
• 
  Childhood can only be returned by falling into it. Emil Krotky
• Only when you reach a reasonable age do you begin to behave recklessly. "Pshekrui"
• Growing up, we become more serious, and this, let me say, is the first step towards becoming stupid. Joseph Addison
• I remember my childhood with trepidation and with a desire to return everything ...
• Snow, in other words - childhood, in other words - happiness. Emil Michel Cioran
• Age is too high a price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard
• Would the boy you were be proud of a man like you? Lawrence Peter
• Growing up, we most often become the same men from whom our mother told us to stay away. Brendan Francis
• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that from now on he is allowed not only to be right, but also to be wrong. Thomas Sas
• Let childhood mature in childhood. Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Late children are early orphans. Benjamin Franklin
• Children are angels whose wings shorten as their arms and legs grow.
• The song that a mother sings at the cradle accompanies a person all his life, to the grave. Henry Ward Beecher
• Children are insolent, fastidious, quick-tempered, envious, curious, self-serving, lazy, frivolous, cowardly, intemperate, deceitful and secretive; they easily burst into laughter or tears, over trifles indulge in immoderate joy or bitter sadness, cannot endure pain and love to inflict it - they are already people. Jean La Bruyère
• Conscious childishness is a glory, not a shame of a person. Georges Bataille
• Childhood is when everything is amazing and nothing is surprising. A. Rivarol
• Today's youth is growing up so quickly that it deliberately delays the stage of infantilism. Alexander Kumor
• 
  Childhood is like a butterfly eager to burn its white wings in the flames of youth. A. Bertrand
• There is no music sweeter than the angelic voices of children, if you do not especially listen to the words they utter. Logan Pearsall Smith
• Childhood is a promise that never comes true. Ken Hill
• We are not lucky with children - adults always grow out of them. Christopher Morley
• Childhood is freedom from age. Arkady Davidovich
• Men mature at the age of sixty, women around fifteen. James Stephens
• Childhood: A wonderful time in life when all you have to do to lose weight is take a bath. Richard Zera
• My mother served what was left of dinner for thirty years. Nobody ever saw the dinner itself. Calvin Trillin
• John Lennon could not stand children: he was too child to endure rivals next to him. Albert Goldman
• You can be an adult without imitating the stupid skills of adults. Gustav Yanouch
• To live means to change, to change means to grow up, and to grow up means to constantly create yourself. Henri Bergson
• Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But it's not. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often - freedom. I. Kant
• Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood. Pablo Picasso
• Babies are innocent in their bodily weakness, not in their soul. Augustine the Blessed
• When a child notices that all adults are imperfect, he begins to grow up: when he is already able to forgive them, he becomes an adult; and when he is able to forgive himself, he becomes wise. Alden Nowlan
• 
  People, for the most part, do not grow up, but only gain weight. Leo Rosten
• When I grow up, I want to be a little boy. Joseph Heller
• Love is the last and most severe childhood disease.
• Who has never been a child will never be an adult. Charles Chaplin
• Who becomes a man at sixteen will be a child at sixty. Thomas Fuller
• Only a small part of people is able to keep their childish perception of the world. Eric Bern
• Who needs him - such a baby, through whose mouth the truth speaks? Leonid Leonidov

• Most people don't grow up, they just gain weight. Leo Rosten
• When I was a girl, I only had two girlfriends, and even then they were imaginary. And they only played with each other. Rita Rudner
• The boy screams: “No! Two versus one!" He doesn't know that this is the only way. Ramon Gomez de la Serna
• When you finally return to your old home, it turns out that what you were looking for was not your old home, but your childhood. Sam Ewing (Quotes about children and your home ...)
• Many troubles have their roots precisely in the fact that a person from childhood is not taught to control his desires, they are not taught to correctly relate to the concepts of can, must, cannot. Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky
• The amusements of adults are called business; they are also business for children. Augustine the Blessed
• Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But it's not. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a real friend, and even less often - freedom. Immanuel Kant
• For many, immaturity is not a flaw, but an ideal. Mason Cooley
• My wife doesn't want to grow up. I take a bath and she sinks my boats. Woody Allen
• Childhood should be given the greatest respect. Juvenal Decim Junius
• Men mature at the age of sixty, women around fifteen. James Stephens
• Childhood is that great time of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future of a moral person. Nikolay Vasilievich Shelgunov
• We grow to twenty-three, but the last ten minutes are very slow. Yanina Ipohorskaya
• We remember our childhood with tears in our eyes...
• Childhood is the light at the beginning of the tunnel. Dmitry Pashkov
• No wonder people are so terrible when they have to start life as children. Kingsley Amis
• Childhood is a time of many questions, opportunities and consequences. Alfred Adler
• It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Wayne Dyer
• Childhood is the happiest years of life, but not for children. Michael Moorcock
• By impoverishing the world of childhood, we make it difficult for the child to enter society, into the collective. Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky
• Children's lies and sincerity of adults are two shortcomings that are not forgiven. Zdislav Kalandkiewicz

The child has his own special ability to see, think and feel; there is nothing more stupid than trying to replace their skill with ours. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Let childhood mature in children. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Childhood should not be a constant holiday - if there is no labor tension, feasible for children, the happiness of labor will remain inaccessible to the child. Vasily Sukhomlinsky

These are our judges tomorrow. Maksim Gorky

It is much easier to become a father than to remain one. Vasily Klyuchevsky

One means more than a hundred teachers. David Herbert

Comrades bring up much better than parents, because they are not characterized by pity. Maurois Andre

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde

Children begin with love for their parents. Growing up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde

Raise your children in virtue: it alone can give happiness. Ludwig van Beethoven

The best thing we can give our children is to teach them to love themselves. Louise Hay

The purpose of education is to teach our children to do without us. Ernst Legowe

The first problem of parents is to teach their children how to behave in polite society; the second is to find this decent society. Robert Orben

All the children of the world cry in the same language. Leonid Leonov

Do you know what the surest way to make your child unhappy is to teach him not to meet with anything. Jean Jacques Rousseau

To change a person, you need to start with his grandmother. Victor Hugo

Pay your attention not so much to the extermination of shortcomings and vices in children, but to filling them with life-giving love: there will be - there will be no vices. The extermination of the bad without filling it with the good is fruitless: it produces emptiness, and the emptiness is constantly filled with emptiness; cast out one, another will appear. Vissarion Belinsky

Our children are our old age. Proper upbringing- this is our happy old age, bad upbringing - this is our future grief, these are our tears, this is our fault before other people, before the whole country. Anton Makarenko

Sweets, biscuits and sweets cannot be raised from children of healthy people. Like bodily food, spiritual food should also be simple and nutritious. Robert Schumann

A child needs your love the most just when he least deserves it. Erma Bombek

Do not make an idol out of a child: when he grows up, he will require sacrifices. Pierre Buast

He who does not instill anything useful in his son feeds a thief. Thomas Fuller

If the child does not feel that your house belongs to him too, he will make the street his home. Nadine de Rothschild

Children listen most attentively when they are not talking to them. Eleanor Roosevelt

One painter was asked why, while he makes such beautiful figures, which are dead objects, why did he make his children so ugly. To which the painter replied that he makes pictures during the day, while children at night. Leonardo da Vinci

If children grew up in accordance with our expectations, we would grow up only geniuses. Johann Wolfrang

Don't think that you are raising a child only when you talk to him, or teach him, or order him. You are nurturing it in every moment of your life. The child sees or feels the slightest changes in tone, all turns of your thought reach him in invisible ways, you do not notice them. Anton Makarenko

Only one lesson in morality is suitable for childhood and is extremely important for every age - this is not to do harm to anyone. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Children have neither a past nor a future, but, unlike us adults, they know how to use the present. Jean de La Bruyère

The future of the nation is in the hands of mothers. Honore de Balzac

The concentration of parental love on one child is a terrible delusion. Anton Makarenko

You can't scare away children with severity, they can't stand only lies. Lev Tolstoy

Never promise a child what cannot be kept, and never deceive him. Konstantin Ushinsky

That educator of children who does not remember his childhood is bad. Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach

The greatest mistake in education is excessive haste. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Children are always willing to do something. This is very useful, and therefore not only should this not be interfered with, but measures must be taken to ensure that they always have something to do. Jan Comenius

Parents least of all forgive their children for the vices that they themselves instilled in them. Friedrich Schiller

Do not make the children shed tears too often, otherwise they will have nothing to drop over your grave. Pythagoras

If by the age of forty a person's room is not filled with children's voices, then it is filled with nightmares. Charles Sainte-Beuve

Children do not need teachings, but examples. Joseph Joubert

Children need role models more than criticism. Joseph Joubert

Adults never understand anything themselves, and for children it is very tiring to endlessly explain and interpret everything to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery