Ken Wilber Quotes

When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why I like writing for that age group so much.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.

Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.

A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.