Hood Quotes

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and our brotherhood [and sisterhood]. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible--a more human face

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.