R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Crush, Children, Order

• All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Genius, Born

• I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Years, Newborn Child

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1984). “Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist”, p.11, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Children, Knowledge

• The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Important, Doe

• We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Sports, Children, Mistake

• There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Genius

• Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Nice, Animal

• There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Choices, Spontaneous

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

• The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, New Relationship, Technology

  "Connecting All The Dots" by Parag, Ayesha Khanna, bigthink.com.

• If we design the environment properly
  It will permit both child and adult to develop safely
  And to behave logically.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Men, Design

  "And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay".

• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

• All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Years, Firsts

• Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Enormous, Competence

  "Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1992.

• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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