Child Quote by Jane M. Healy

“Children need practice dealing with other people. With people, practice never leads to perfect. But perfect isn’t the goal. Perfect is the goal only…

— John Brockman

“Adults think children are oblivious to their surroundings I think; as if we are blind and stupid until we blurt out something that tells…

— Shiree McCarver

“Cognitive and social learning cannot break through to a child whose world is intrusively loud, blindingly bright, unbearably malodorous and physically complicated to navigate.”

— Ellen Notbohm

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are…

— Tony Buzan

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

— James Stenson

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word…

— Maria Montessori

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly…

— Fran Lebowitz

Children have their own mind.

— Sridevi

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

— Beatrix Potter

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

“Conversation is how values get ordered, how passion is made contagious. If a parent talks about it, it's important. If a child is allowed…

— Robin R. Meyers