Children Quote by Jonathan Edwards

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

— Helen Keller

“What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just…

— Carol S. Dweck

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

A progeny of learning.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their…

— Daniel Greenberg

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

The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not…

— Daniel Quinn

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind,…

— Henry Winkler

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt…

— George Trumbull Ladd

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

— Caroline Pratt

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