Child Quote by Anonymous

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his…

— Bruno Bettelheim

It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to…

— Selma Fraiberg

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

— Maria Montessori

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

— Maria Montessori

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that…

— Maxine Greene

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

— George Bernard Shaw

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

— Malachy McCourt

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

— Maria Montessori

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built…

— Jean Piaget

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to…

— Kate DiCamillo

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

— Richard Louv

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

— Rachel Carson