Child Quote by Maria Montessori

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

— Derren Brown

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

— Maria Montessori

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of…

— Maria Montessori

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the…

— Faith Ringgold

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

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Brain studies of low SES children have shown them to be less able to filter out irrelevant information in a learning situation. Although this…

— Terry Marselle

“Adult children – not having a good idea of what ‘normal’ is – tend to guess a lot of the time. They guess at…

— Judy Klipin

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

— Gregory Maguire

It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

— Sean Astin

Children are just little scientists.

— Jamie Hyneman