I have been asked to post my favorite quote about children, but I have several and do not consider one better than another. I will share a few of them with you.

"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
                                                                                              Proverbs 22:6

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
                                                                                                   Plato

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