“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.” WorldChildrenWarHateCultureViolenceOne ThingTaughtGrewMetsGrew UpIgnorantFormerTalibanOutside World Author:Greg Mortenson
“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.” NeedsChildrenSeemsAgeDiesNaturalCuriosityHungerIgnorantExplanation Author:Mahlon Hoagland
“The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.” BelieveMayChildrenEnoughUnderstandingCircumstancesInstinctTerrorGhostIgnorantEducatedFormerLatterTroublesomeJust Believe Book:The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers Source: The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers
“Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.” FeelsChildrenMatterIndividualForceActingAppreciateBlindEndureIgnorantEducatedAcknowledgeBowsSovereigntyMajestyMandatesAdmitting Book:Common School Journal Source: Common School Journal
“Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.” ChildrenDoneCareCultureEvilWomenCommitIgnorantRemedyWorthless Book:Character Source: Character
“Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.” WantChildrenWholeBornStupidBabyBecomingProveIntelligentIntelligenceWhole LifeIgnorantMinistersCrownsCabinetsTranquil Author:Stephen King
“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.” KnowsWayChildrenMadeGrowsFitDemandAdultsBasesMethodIgnorantMade ItOperationsGears Author:Steven Biko