Children Quote by Josh Waitzkin

“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

“After decades of research about how children learn best, here’s what we’ve discovered: Children learn through play. It’s the work of childhood. Children learn…

— Laurel Schmidt

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

“Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.”

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

“But if you believe that adults can ‘make’ children learn well—in the absence of or in defiance of a child’s inner sense of confident…

— Kirsten Olson

I learned resiliency at a very early age.

— Brian Flores

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

— Helen Keller

“Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever.”

— Sybrina Durant

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

— Caroline Pratt

Learning is an everlasting process and as far as social and emotional skills are concerned, they can be learned and enhanced at any age.

— Senora Roy

The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on…

— David Elkind

“We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons…

— Richelle E. Goodrich