Children Quote by Timothy Gowers

“The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an…

— Anonymous

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word…

— Maria Montessori

“To tell a group of adolescents who already know how to speak and write that that is the purpose of grammar is like telling…

— Muriel Barbery

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“[..] too often we teach children concepts without context; we need to show them why learning is important”

— Sudhakar Ram

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination of words.…

— James Crawford

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious…

— Maria Montessori

“Why shall we talk? We talk to enrich our children’s vocabulary, and to let them use their vocabulary balance so their language grows, and…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were,…

— Helen Keller