Children Quote by Terry Marselle

“Children do not have reasoning capability or emotive development; thus, they are unable to precisely gauge what is going on with them.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Common Core math standards seem unaware that children are not miniaturized adults, who are absolutely incapable of certain kinds of cognition. For example, genuine…

— Terry Marselle

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and…

— Joseph Joubert

“Adults who believe in the Little Adult Assumption are going to rely heavily on words and reasons in trying to change the behavior of…

— Thomas W. Phelan

The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is…

— David Elkind

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an…

— Lysander Spooner

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

“Yet somehow mothers and fathers believe that if only they could convey the logic of their decisions, their young children would understand it. That’s…

— Jennifer Senior

Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they…

— Phyllis McGinley

“Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn’t interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.”

— Miguel Ruiz

Our children should not be told what to think but rather how to reason.

— Margaret Brennan

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind…

— John B. S. Haldane