32 Quotes about Childhood & Education: Free to Share on Social Media

Here are some of our favourite quotes about childhood and education. You are welcome to use them in your classroom newsletters, school newsletters, staff meeting presentations and parent-teacher night presentations.

 

You may also save them to add to your Instagram or FB pages (personal or business). If you do use the images on social media, please mention us by including the handle @celebratingchildhood somewhere in your description (or linking back to our page). Thank you! Tracey and Sonya

 

1. Four very powerful words to say to your child: I BELIEVE IN YOU. – Kevin Heath

 

2. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. – Walt Straightiff

 

3. Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. – Walt Disney

 

4. Life must be lived as play. – Plato

 

5. Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. – Fred Rogers

 

6. A child who reads will be an adult who thinks. – Unknown

 

7. We are all different and that’s beautiful – Karen Salmansohn

 

8. Sometimes the greatest PD is the teacher down the hall. – Brian Aspinall

 

9. Reading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible. – Barrak Obama

 

10. It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you. – Unknown

 

11. When a student makes a poor choice (which we all do), it’s the conversation, not the consequence, that makes all the difference. – Dr. Justin Tarte

 

12. Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn. – Benjamin Franklin

 

13. Classroom teachers have earned a seat at the table wherever decisions regarding education are being made. – Tracey Garrett

 

14. We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that they are someone today. – Stacia Tauscher

 

15. The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime. – Unknown

 

16. Children learn as the play. Most importantly, in play, children learn how to learn. – Fred Donaldson

 

17. How slight a nod it would take, how bare a smile, to give everyone you meet today a sense of worth. – Robert Brault

 

18. Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure. – Emily Wing Smith

 

19. Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures. – Lovell Drachman

 

20. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

21. Play is the highest form of research. – Albert Einstein

 

22. Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child. – Tom Stoppard

 

23. Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt. – John Muir

 

24. You will never regret time spent blowing bubbles. – Unknown

 

25. Children see magic because they look for it. – Christopher Moore

 

26. Children can not bounce off the walls if we take away the walls. – Erin Kenny

 

27. Be someone who makes everyone feel like a someone. – Unknown

 

28. Children need to sit alone in their own boredom for the world to become quiet enough so that they can hear themselves. – Vanessa la Pointe

 

29. Children are like sponges – they are going to absorb whatever is around them, so we need to be intentional about what surrounds them. – Dave Ramsey

 

30. If a child can do advanced math, speak three languages or receive top grades, but can’t manage their emotions, practice conflict resolution or handle stress, none of that other stuff is really going to matter. – Unknown

 

31. Seven words that can change a kid’s life. “I love having you in my class.” – Brian Mendler

 

32. There isn’t any known way to bulk-educate; it’s all custom work. – John Taylor Gatto