George Santayana Quotes about Children

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

Education, Teacher, Children

George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

George Santayana

Change, Children, Persistence

George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

George Santayana

Children, Men, Possession

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.48, 谷月社

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

Children, Memories, Parent

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

George Santayana

Children, And Love, Natural

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

Children, Memories, Husband

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社