Children Playing And Learning Quotes & Sayings

Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making. — David Foster Wallace

When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for "cookie." Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z. — Ji Lee

Writing is like running a marathon. One needs stamina and perseverance. The right preparation and pacing get results. — K.J. Kilton

Conor wasn't stupid. When they'd had the "little talk" the next day, he knew what his mum had done and why she had done it. But that didn't take away from how much fun that night had been. How hard they'd laughed. How anything had seemed possible. How anything good could have happened to them right then and there and they wouldn't have been surprised. — Patrick Ness

From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower ... We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms. — Mary Caroline Richards

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed? — Sharon Shinn

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain. — Andrew Bird

Role-playing situations work well for many parents. After deprivation or prenatal exposure to substance, many children have verbal instruction as their weakest learning area, but many have role playing as their strongest. — Deborah D. Gray

Having too many toys can actually create more difficulties between children. Try to minimise your toys at home opting for more open ended resources. Children like to copy each other, so instead of having one expensive toy to fight over, several of the same things such as containers, spoons or boxes will give less opportunity for conflict and more time for playing and learning together. — Samantha Vickery

The Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. — Craig L. Rice

Hell is so bloody thing, but with Lucifer from Lucifer series, hell is like comedy. — Deyth Banger

What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children. — Toni Morrison

Children don't do formal learning at desks in preschool or kindergarten, they learn through playing. — Lucy Crehan

A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation - the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be an elitist, a Magician, and be plugged into the system. — Anton Szandor LaVey