Adults Quote by Jodi Picoult

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

— Jodi Picoult

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary…

— Maria Montessori

Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that…

— Neil Postman

I think children learn through their parents.

— Sridevi

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and…

— Kate DiCamillo

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing…

— Mark Strong

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young…

— Jane Wagner