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Joseph Joubert Quotes about Children

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Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert
Positive, Education, Children

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Firsts, Disputes
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Pain, Wrinkles
"The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joseph Joubert
Time, Children, Humorous
"The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Animal, Men
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Thinking, Age
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Pride, Men

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Joseph Joubert
Education, Children, Parent

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert
Children, Book, Reading

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

Joseph Joubert
Morning, Children, Eye
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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