Educational Readiness Quotes

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.