Children Quote by David Guterson

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens…

— Maria Montessori

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…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Students were taught by doing.

— Minor White

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery,…

— Mortimer Adler

“Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.”

— Bryant McGill

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

— Esperanza Spalding

“In schools where learning is taken very seriously, there are few interruptions. See what you can do to change the culture of your school…

— Regie Routman

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something…

— John Dewey

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a…

— Miss Read

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

— Joseph Barrell

“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job…

— Ray Bradbury

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the…

— Maria Montessori