Parents stress the importance of learning to their…

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

— Benjamin Rush

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives…

— Julie Andrews

“the children and me ahead, and then he will”

— Bodie Thoene

You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If…

— Heidi Hammel

We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for…

— John Holt

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

— Fred Rogers

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to…

— Yakov Smirnoff

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first…

— Adora Svitak

“After decades of research about how children learn best, here’s what we’ve discovered: Children learn through play. It’s the work of childhood. Children learn…

— Laurel Schmidt

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance,…

— Anthony Standen

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big…

— Anonymous

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at…

— Amartya Sen

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if…

— Edith Wharton

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

— Ronald Reagan