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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Should Wells Children Art Parent Knowledge Virtue Concern Careful Manners Innocence Good Manners More Knowledge Speaking Well

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.”

Children Virtue Childhood Foundation Headstone

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.”

Giving Children Art Ends Wealth Virtue Our Children Adversity Your Children

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.”

Thinking Children Littles Enjoy Company Virtue Too Much Modern Negative Importance Educational Merit Interfere Theorists

Book:In praise of idleness: and other essays

Source: In praise of idleness: and other essays

“Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.”

Ifs World Believe Children Christianity Teach Cases Virtue Destruction Trade Islam London Horrible Customs Obliged Bombing Massacres World Trade World Trade Center Madrid

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste