Adults Quote by Keith Johnstone

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied…

— Keith Johnstone

Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever…

— Robert Muller

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are…

— Anonymous

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to…

— Seymour Papert

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk…

— Craig Ferguson

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films,…

— Wallace Shawn

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to…

— Seymour Papert

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a…

— Miss Read

What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think…

— John Dewey

We respect that children are smart, sophisticated and can handle things that adults typically don't think they can.

— Travis Knight

“A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the…

— Steve Brody

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults,…

— Anthony Daniels