John Dewey Quotes

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

Everything‟s fine,” I said, with a tight smile. “Kiyo was just giving me his latest explanation about how my son is a terror to be feared.” Dorian scoffed. “Little Thundro? A terror? Hardly, unless perhaps we‟re discussing diapers.

The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

The child will reveal himself through work.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.