Children Quote by Jerome Bruner

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

— Jean Piaget

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

— John Ruskin

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind…

— John B. S. Haldane

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp…

— Phyllis Bottome

Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example…

— Dwan J. Young

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

— Caroline Pratt

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human…

— Maria Montessori

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

— Marie Clay

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

— Kent McCord

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which…

— John Dewey