Los niños que nadie lleva de la mano son los niños que saben que son niños.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

There is a class of person who cannot lead and will not be led. Such persons go their own way, uncorrupted by insight, unmitigated by experience. They do what they do, and usually they die of it, but they would rather die than cooperate with anyone else.

Kids don’t do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.

Children, I confess, are not born in this state of equality, though they are born to it.

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

For what is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction. For where a child has knowledge, he is no worse than we are.

Our children are not individuals whose rights and tastes are casually respected from infancy, as they are in some primitive societies . . . . They are fundamentally extension of our own egos and give a special opportunity for the display of authority.

children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

Young children are at their most mesmerizing when they aren’t self-conscious at all.