Childhood Learning Quotes

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.