Browsing Topic Best Children Learning Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I didn’t want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, What happened then, daddy? I said, If you learn to read, you can find out. I’m too tired to read. I’ll read to you tomorrow. So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don’t teach children how to read. Don’t teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they’re working ass-backwards.

NEW RULE: ‘Kidiots’ Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a ‘watch what you say’ administration…George W. Bush once asked, ‘is our children learning.’ No, they isn’t. A better question would be, ‘is our teacher’s teaching?

Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there’s a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times–get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you’re going, you don’t stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don’t listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

No one can take it away from you.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

The soul is healed by being with children.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won’t go in there. That’s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.