Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Imagination, Innovation

• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Family, Education

• Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Sweet, Children

• Sticking to it is the genius.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Ignorance, Knowledge

• Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Lying, School

• The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Years, Religion

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