Haim Ginott Quotes

Haim G. Ginott was a school teacher, a child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, Between Parent and Child, stayed on the best seller list for over a year and is still popular today. This book sets out to give "specific advice derived from basic communication principles that will guide parents in living with children in mutual respect and dignity." Wikipedia

✵ 5. August 1922 – 4. November 1973

Haim Ginott: 4 quotes1 like

Famous Haim Ginott Quotes

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, a child humanized or de-humanized.”

Quoted in Fair isn't always equal: assessing & grading in the differentiated classroom By Rick Wormeli, p. 9

“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”

Quoted in Practical Parenting Tips By Vicki Lansky, p. 190

“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”

Ginott, H. G. (1972). Teacher and child. New York: Macmillan.

“Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.”

Quoted in Gently And Firmly By C.P. Varkey, p. 87

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