Child Quote by Ellen Notbohm

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

— Polly Berrien Berends

“A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child’s playful obliviousness.”

— Josh Waitzkin

“How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder?…

— Jane M. Healy

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

— Alison Gopnik

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

— Maria Montessori

“the behaviors and skills we want and expect our kids to demonstrate, like sound decision making, control of their emotions and bodies, empathy, self-understanding,…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“A child with minimal video and TV exposure... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated in inner…

— Diane Medved

“Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.”

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you…

— Plato

“Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able…

— Lloyd Alexander

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.

— James Stenson

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

— Charles Baudelaire