Quotes on Children Learning

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

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

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

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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

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

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.