Children Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely…

— R. Buckminster Fuller