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I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

— Renzo Piano

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✓Similar Perspectives

'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.

— Faye Wattleton

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

— James A. Baldwin

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

— Todd Park

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

— Kent McCord

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.

— Penelope Cruz

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

— Gloria Estefan

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

— James A. Baldwin

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

— Cindy Crawford

✗Opposing Perspectives

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

— Emma Thompson

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

— Julianne Moore