“Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority.”

“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.”

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

“What effect will all this have on education? First of all, teaching computer skill will be more important - much more important - than teaching children lists of facts. The computer will become the child's memory.”

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”

“DeMaistre and Bonald … wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald’s phrase, “the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence.””

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”

“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”

“Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.”