Abstract thinking Quote by Terry Marselle

“children cannot reason abstractly until age 11 at the earliest Standard”

— Terry Marselle

“Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to complete a systematic study of cognitive development. He introduced us to the idea that children are not…

— Clare Landrigan

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

— Patricia Dsouza

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven,…

— Doris Lessing

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

“If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But…

— S.I. Hayakawa

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they…

— Walt Disney

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

“Once our children “know” an answer, they no longer bother to think about it. It’s better for children to spend plenty of time in…

— Denise Gaskins

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Helen Keller

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

— Maria Montessori

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary…

— Maria Montessori