“I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.” ChildrenWantedGirlStageFashionDesignIndustryClothesShoesMy ThoughtsFashion Industry Author:Christian Louboutin
“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.” ChildrenMotherPiecesDesignObjectsBrotherSaltBrothers And SistersCousinPeppersMother And ChildShakersSalt And Pepper Author:Eva Zeisel
“When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.” WellsChildrenMotherFeltDesignMetsWestRestaurantsVillageAirportsWest IndiesZurich Author:Eva Zeisel
“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.” IfsKindChildrenIdeasSoulDoneJobsPurposeImaginationNaturalDesignAnd LoveMathematicsCuriosityPatternsCome UpContemporaryCrushDestroyingMechanismBeing DoneNatural Curiosity Author:Paul Lockhart
“By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.” ChildrenChristianSpiritualDesireAbilityDesignFabricDnaWovenReproduction Book:Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live. Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.” IfsWayNeedsTryingFirstsChildrenPlayGoalTeachingAchieveDesignDisciplineCuriosityGood TimesControlledUnpredictableRelaxedConditioningBoundlessIndividualistic Author:Roger Fouts
“When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.” WorldChildrenArtPlayCharacterBodyMotivationSpaceTeachStageDesignDrawsRootsFolksTraditionalCelebrateMasterpieceGeometryFlutes Book:Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics Source: Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics
“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.” IfsHumansMeanChildrenArtWholeUseFeelingsLawDesireOrderBornDesignDivineGoes OnDrugGainsVariousWhole LifeObservationProvidenceLaws Of NatureDominionOffspringImmoralityDivine Providence Author:Clement of Alexandria