Absurdity Quote by David Starkey

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

— Robert Lepage

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one…

— Pamela Druckerman

“Once our children “know” an answer, they no longer bother to think about it. It’s better for children to spend plenty of time in…

— Denise Gaskins

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all…

— Michael Morpurgo

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children…

— Lynne Cheney

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

— George Carlin

Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something they…

— Kevin Maney

“Her father had never bothered with books, but when his daughter sat reading the newspaper at the age of five he wasn’t so stupid…

— Fredrik Backman

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

— Dick Cavett

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

— Robert Southey

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

— Keith Haring

Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

— Everett Reimer