Children Quote by Polly Berrien Berends

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

— Maria Montessori

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

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

— Caroline Pratt

“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

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

— Rohini Nilekani

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

— Jean Piaget

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

— C. Everett Koop

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

— Flannery O'Connor

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

— Ken Robinson

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

— Helen Keller