A Child Learns Quotes

#1. It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Sunday Adelaja

#3. reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.

Andrew Murray

#4. A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Karl Kraus

#5. Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences ... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.

Henry Moore

#6. Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding
or wanting to admit
that what a child learns first isn't the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help them learn, this ostentatious show of reading is primarily intended to reassure them and please us.

Daniel Pennac

#7. Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Laura Bush

#8. Having a strong urge is like having a child throw a temper tantrum inside you, screaming "Hurt yourself!" But if you repeatedly ignore the urge's request and don't harm yourself, your brain will learn that urges don't work, just as a child learns that throwing a tantrum won't work.

Kim L. Gratz

#9. By learning to yield to the loving authority ... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life - his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

James Dobson

#10. Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.

Louise J. Kaplan

#11. ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Julia Child

#12. Common observation confirms that a mobile, exploring toddler learns faster and more efficiently than the child whose feet never leave the couch and whose eyes never leave the T.V. screen.

Gary Ezzo

#13. We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Nolte

#15. One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

Anita Brookner

#16. The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

Maria Montessori

#17. If you teach a child to pass a test, he will learn for a day. If you teach a child to understand how he learns, he will learn for a lifetime." -- Kelly Flynn

Kelly Flynn

#18. Create a safe zone. Every parent quickly learns that every child - and every adult - handles conflict differently. Some push back when criticized, some turn inward, some break down in tears.

Bruce Feiler

#19. The principal reason it transforms is that water is a collection of molecules, H2O, every child learns that.And that bond has the property that as the bonds get stronger when you cool water, the ice expands.

Ira Flatow

#20. But it is no use trying to account for things in Fairy Land; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes everything as it comes; like a child, who, being in a chronic condition of wonder, is surprised at nothing.

George MacDonald

#21. The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Maya Angelou

#22. It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

Henry Winkler

#23. a girl has got to be a daughter first. She have to learn that. And if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't never learn how to be a woman. I mean a real woman: a woman good enough for a child; good enough for a man - good enough even for the respect of other women.

Toni Morrison

#24. I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

George W. Bush

#25. A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

Richard L. Evans

#26. The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

Jim Cornette

#27. The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

Rabindranath Tagore

#28. 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.

Penelope Leach

#29. A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Bill Cosby

#30. A watched child never learns.

Robert Breault

#31. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.

Dorothy Nolte

#32. The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#33. Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

Salman Rushdie

#34. A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

John Hall Wheelock

#35. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

Dorothy Nolte

#36. Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

Jostein Gaarder

#37. As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

Jan Hunt

#38. Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

Max Muller