Children Learning Quotes

• Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

  George W. Bush

  Witty, Nature, Children

  "You've been a great audience ..." by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
  building better lives.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Education, Children

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

  Ole Ivar Lovaas

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

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• Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

  Alice Miller

  Love, Respect, Children

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

  Marie Clay

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

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• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Motivational, Children, Reading

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  Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Communication, Learning

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

  Arthur Rackham

  Education, Children, Learning

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• We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

  Pedro Noguera

  Education, Children, Learning

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Future

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• 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.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• 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.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Inspirational, Music, Mother

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• Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Education, Children, Gay

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• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

  Tim Allen

  Friendship, Teamwork, Mom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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