Top 100 Children Learn Quotes
#1. As parents, the most important thing we can do
is read to our children early and often. Reading
is the path to success in school and life. When
children learn to love books, they learn to love
learning.
Laura Bush
#2. Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.
Carrie Tollefson
#3. However, unschooling doesn't imply that a child doesn't take classes or participate in structured learning activities. It means that we, the parents, don't attempt to make our children learn by giving assignments or otherwise manipulating or threatening them into learning and doing things.
Sara McGrath
#4. The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.
Doris Christopher
#5. How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
By watching how you correct yours.
How do children learn to overcome their failures?
By watching how you overcome yours.
How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
By watching you forgive yourself.
William Martin
#6. Not by force shall the children learn, but through play
Plato
#7. But if you believe that adults can 'make' children learn well - in the absence of or in defiance of a child's inner sense of confident engagement with the power of discovery and mastery - then, in my view, you are placing that child at great risk of failure as a learner.
Kirsten Olson
#8. Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins
#9. The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.
George R R Martin
#10. All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl
#11. Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.
Caroline Pratt
#12. Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.
Lawrence Kutner
#13. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.
Horace Mann
#14. I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
Jools Holland
#15. Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
Alison Gopnik
#16. Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
Bill Cosby
#17. Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
Thomas S. Monson
#18. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
Elliot W. Eisner
#19. Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'
David A. Bednar
#20. Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
Beverly LaHaye
#22. Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
Thomas Traherne
#23. Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#24. Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
#25. It's not whether children learn from television, it's what children learn from television ... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#26. A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation
Albert Bandura
#27. We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
Alison Gopnik
#28. If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.
David Warlick
#29. Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
Harlan Coben
#30. Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.
Jeb Bush
#31. 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
Albert Bandura
#32. The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.
Fred Rogers
#33. The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
Virginia Hamilton
#34. What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.
Bruno Bettelheim
#35. Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.
Kimberlee Roth
#36. Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
Roger Lewin
#37. Children learn to care by experiencing good care. They come to know the blessings of gentleness, or sympathy, of patience and kindness, of support and backing first through the way in which they themselves are treated.
James L Hymes
#38. Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.
Gordon Neufeld
#39. Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
Lysander Spooner
#40. Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.
Richard Dawkins
#41. Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear ... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
J.C. Ryle
#42. I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
Kent McCord
#43. Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#44. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#46. If parents don't want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.
Nikki Sex
#47. The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
Alison Gopnik
#48. Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.
Michelle Obama
#49. No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.
John Katzman
#51. Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.
John Holt
#52. Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.
Stephen King
#53. One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.
Michael Adam Hamilton
#54. Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.
Orville Prescott
#55. When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.
Sandra Dodd
#56. Ordinarily, small children learn much about emotions by looking at the other person's eyes, while those with autism avoid the eyes and so fail to get those lessons.
Daniel Goleman
#57. The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.
Pope Francis
#58. Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.
James Heckman
#59. Children learn it. Boys, but more often, and more closely, girls. When girls learn it, they learn it for the rest of their lives, inventing two separate planes on which they exist--the life of the surface, presented for others, and the life forever lived on the inside, the one that owns you.
Kayla Rae Whitaker
#61. Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.
Leo Buscaglia
#62. To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
John Holt
#63. Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
Plato
#64. Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way.
Orville Prescott
#65. If children learn of sex as a relation between their parents to which they owe their own existence, they learn of it in its best form and in connection with its biological purpose.
Bertrand Russell
#66. When we're kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others. Our children learn how to be self-compassionate by watching us, and the people around us feel free to be authentic and connected.
Brene Brown
#67. But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.
E.H. Gombrich
#68. She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
Greg Iles
#69. In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too
Usain Bolt
#70. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.
James Dyson
#71. Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#72. I consider my childhood a gift," Maurice once told me. "It happened to me so I could learn the right way to raise my children.
Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
#73. Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.
Bobby Brown
#74. Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Benjamin Franklin
#75. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#76. I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.
Mimsy Sadofsky
#77. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
Aristophanes
#78. As children, we learn that if we cry, we'll receive affection , that if we show we're sad we'll be consoled. If we can't get what we want with a smile, then surely we can do so with our tears .
Paulo Coelho
#79. Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.
Joseph Campbell
#80. If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
Alfie Kohn
#81. The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
Queen Victoria
#82. Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein
#83. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.
Meir Soloveichik
#84. The truth is an offense but not a sin
Is he who laugh last, children! is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! to respect the sheperd
Bob Marley
#85. Children are not always mature enough to follow advice but often learn from the example of others.
Brian Michael Good
#86. With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.
Guillermo Del Toro
#87. Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.
Magda Gerber
#88. Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society ... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.
Max Meyer
#89. When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.
Fred Rogers
#90. For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Orson Scott Card
#91. Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#92. If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
Terry Pratchett
#93. The last of her children, whom she barely glanced at when he was born because it wasn't worth the trouble to try to learn features you would never see change into adulthood anyway.
Toni Morrison
#94. 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; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
Thomas Szasz
#95. God desires to be Lord over you. Not Lord around your schedule. Until you learn to schedule your life around Him you will never know Him. The Lord is inviting His last day children to rediscover the joy of His presence.
Apostle Dynamique
#96. Wasn't it odd how children could be so fascinated by magic? It took them time and the lessons of the Chantry to learn real fear.
David Gaider
#97. Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.
Daniel Goleman
#98. School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
Simone Weil
#99. My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.
Nel Noddings
#100. The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katherine Whitehorn
