Adults Quote by Jim Trelease Download Open image “We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.” — Jim Trelease ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adults Coffee Instant Instant coffee Pudding
Adults are just kids who have spent a little more time on this earth. — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? — Paul Sweeney Copy Share Image
We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer. — Mike Conaway Copy Share Image
Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image
The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it,… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans,… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“This is not a book about teaching a child how to read; it's about teaching a child to want to read. There's an education… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do. — One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image