Children Quote by Zoltan Kodaly

Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press…

— Alison Gopnik

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination…

— Maria Montessori

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

— Daniel Quinn

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

— Maria Montessori

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

— Caroline Pratt

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

— Zhuangzi

When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we…

— Jane Alexander

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and…

— Linda Darling-Hammond

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

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good…

— Matt Cameron

I cannot teach a child I do not know

— Ted Sizer

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil…

— Michel de Montaigne