“These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.”

“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

“I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.”

Mary Pope Osborne (1949) American children's writer

“Up! children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! And destroy them all.”

Shaka (1787–1828) leader of the Zulu Kingdom

“Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.”

António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970) Prime Minister of Portugal

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

“The real question is: "Should we have public schools?" Let's argue about that one for a while first. If we are going to have them, then we should discuss what could be taught in them. Who decides what is going to be taught in them? Does Bill Clinton decide what's taught? Or Osama Bin Laden decide what's taught? Should you decide what's taught, or should I decide? The whole problem is that some people have this idiot idea that children belong to the state. No, no, no, children belong to God, they are entrusted to parents. The parents should decide what God wants them to be taught, the state does not ever have children. It is sterile, it can't have children, they want to steal yours.”

Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist