Learning Kids Quotes

#1. Keep learning science, kids.

Satan

#2. I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

Paula Danziger

#3. Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.

Warryn Campbell

#4. I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

Justin Broadrick

#5. [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

#6. We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage ... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.

Howard Gardner

#7. Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.
I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Brian K. Vaughan

#8. Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#9. I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.

Warren Mundine

#10. Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.

Bill Rancic

#11. You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

Timothy Ferriss

#12. Kids are constantly evolving, learning, and growing. They aren't who they were yesterday.

Rachel Vail

#13. Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

Anna Deavere Smith

#14. Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

Dennis Moore

#15. I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

Dolly Parton

#16. I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

Jenny McCarthy

#17. I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Jim Abbott

#18. Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

Stephen Colbert

#19. Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.

Alonso Duralde

#20. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.

Betsy Cornwell

#21. Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Adora Svitak

#22. My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq ... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

A.R. Rahman

#23. When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

Anna Deavere Smith

#24. It's okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that's what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.

Jeff Hutchins

#25. The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Rob Lowe

#26. No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

Michael J. Fox

#27. Learning to slow down and pay attention: A book for kids about ADD.

Ellen B. Braaten

#28. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Roald Dahl

#29. I'm learning to trust other people to do things. My time is limited, and I'd rather be spending it with my kids.

Kourtney Kardashian

#30. I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.
Kids just have an easier time with words.

Brian K. Vaughan

#31. From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

Carre Otis

#32. Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

Susan Wojcicki

#33. Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.

Galit Breen

#34. The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

Lauren Machta

#35. I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

Tom Freston

#36. Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

Grace Llewellyn

#37. When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Jez Butterworth

#38. The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.

Po Bronson

#39. I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

P. J. O'Rourke

#40. Teaching is different today. Teachers don't just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we're ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.

Tony Danza

#41. Candy can coax kids. Cooked cabbage can't.

Ted Agon

#42. A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Eminem

#43. I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

Norton Juster

#44. Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement.

Mizuko Ito

#45. I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

Halsey

#46. That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

Doseone

#47. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.

Jen Hatmaker

#48. Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

Michelle Malkin

#49. As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

Jeffrey Wright

#50. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Alfie Kohn

#51. We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

Layne Staley

#52. Grow to be a creative adult, and you'll develop and inspire others. Grow to be a thinker and you'll be aware of the animlas, the plants, and the fascinating veriety of people in our world.

Michelle Korenfeld

#53. Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#54. Jobs are for kids learning and for adults unwilling to follow their dreams.

Ben Tolosa

#55. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

Criss Jami

#56. One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

Ricardo Semler

#57. One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

Mark Deklin

#58. Why can't the ex-Chemist have a second chance? I get that we're kids and he's an adult, but you don't learn everything before you grow up. You learn until grass grows on your grave.

Shelley Tougas

#59. My new favorite quote is, Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

Joy Hakim

#60. Or maybe in school you didn't learn as quickly as you thought other kids did, and rather than considering the idea that you had a different learning strategy, you may have decided that you were "learning-disabled.

Anthony Robbins

#61. With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting.

Peter Lerangis

#62. Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#63. In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

#64. I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

Rick Riordan

#65. My mom was always like, "If I know that my kid is having fun, she's gonna do whatever she wants. Whether that's gymnastics, learning the car, acting or just being a normal kid, she's gonna do what makes her happy." That's how I've always lived my life.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#66. Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

Patty Murray

#67. My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

Shane Filan

#68. When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose ... Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult ... is only a slow sewing it shut.

Jodi Picoult

#69. People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members.

Seohyun

#70. We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

#71. Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

Ziggy Marley

#72. A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

Charles Duhigg

#73. I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

Lisa Randall

#74. I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

Temple Grandin

#75. It was hard to explain, but there just seemed to be something in the air here. Whatever it was, it made everyone more serious about learning, even the kids who had not bought into other adult dictates.

Amanda Ripley

#76. The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

#77. Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

Toby Keith

#78. I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#79. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Sonia Sotomayor

#80. It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Anne Lamott

#81. These kids were smart, they were enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that the schools hadn't destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually use their brains, which in Thorne's view was a sure sign they hadn't yet completed a formal education.

Michael Crichton

#82. We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

Pedro Noguera

#83. We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

Emeril Lagasse

#84. Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

Jill Vialet

#85. I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.

Damien Rice

#86. We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.

Justin Trudeau

#87. I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

Lizzo

#88. It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.

Michael Dell

#89. So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

Martin R. Lemieux

#90. It's good to see a kid that
young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

Jorge Posada

#91. I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great - really good fun.

Rose George

#92. Rose turned to me. "Did she just speak to him in Spanish?" "Yeah," I said. "She only speaks to him in Spanish, actually. It was in some parenting book she read about kids learning a second language.

Richelle Mead

#93. Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

Jean Berko Gleason

#94. You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Malcolm Gladwell

#95. I'm not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I'm concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten.

Ian Jukes

#96. We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

Wayne Dyer

#97. Share a book and you'll make a friend!

Annie Lang