We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
Alison Gopnik
Related A good school is a community where children learn to live first and foremost as children and not as ... UNKNOWN This is the way we learn to write as children. There's absolutely no new learning required. AJAY GUPTA Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo... DIANE ACKERMAN Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. C.S. LEWIS As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults... CHRIS WARE In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as... THOMAS SZASZ With the very young ones, parents want the kids to learn to focus and pay attention. If you can't fo... DANIEL GAUL Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. MAURICE SENDAK Many children use it as a memory and for comfort because kids deal with death differently than we do... DEB WOLF For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love i... ORSON SCOTT CARD Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their at... JAMES A. MURPHY Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skil... DANIEL GOLEMAN Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons. JAMES JEAN-PIERRE Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to li... BOBBY MCFERRIN We have a lot of fun as well as learn. With the children, you have to include fun for them. GLADYS POZZA Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. RODERICK THORP Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. TONY BUZAN If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call t... CHELSEA FINE It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is fo... MARGO WOOTAN These kids now have the opportunity to communicate, to learn language, and to learn the kinds of con... JANICE LIGHT Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY People with learning disabilities learn differently, obviously. Does that mean the way that they lea... JOANNE DUMM What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adult... LINDA BLAIR Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. JOHANN VON GOETHE Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it to... JOHN STEINBECK It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lu... A. N. WILSON Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. TONY BUZAN Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Play is a very important part, ... Kindergarten education play is a way in which children learn. And... DAVID ELKIND Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn. RALPH BANKS Children can learn to play as a team -- and they learn you don't always win. That's something, this ... MARA KAPLAN For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Te... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not a... HARPER LEE Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some childre... ELAINE ADAMS Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and c... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW As the children of God, we think of Him as a perfect, almighty, loving, caring and forgiving persona... VINKO VRBANIC Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,... BLACK ELK We're really geared for children as well as adults. We don't only want to preserve; we want to educa... CHAIRWOMAN JEAN KLERMAN It is a beautiful piece of art that will inspire our children and adults to learn more about marine ... JOE GAYDOS For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE [Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events.] The reality is ch... PETER ADAMSON The Internet is a remarkable learning tool for children, but as this report shows, there are signifi... JUDD GREGG Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before. AULIQ-ICE Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and w... ALISON GOPNIK For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Inside" Children Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. ... S.A.R.K. Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest gr... C.S. LEWIS Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’... MICHAEL ENDE The adults had just as much fun as the children. DORITA FULLER Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore,... BLACK ELK The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education ... MARTIN O'MALLEY (Children) learn that someone had to work and sweat for it. ED BRIMNER I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lo... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY So I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters with lots of serious people. I have spen... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Autism is a very complex disorder. It used to be that autistic children were classified as 'retarded... GLENDA DAVIS This Asquith research highlights the fact that children, even very young children, are much more sop... ANNABEL KARMEL Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. W.E.B. DU BOIS Our challenge as educators is to make sure children are fed, feel safe, and basic needs are met. Our... JODY WILLIAMS An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providin... GAVIN NEWSOM First we learn a skill, then we master the skill, and finally we create with the skill. JIM GENOVESE Humiliation is a poor teacher for both adults and children. ROSE B MASHIGO When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European ra... JON FAVREAU Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We don't raise any crops other than grass. Our focus is on livestock. We raise breeding stock, as we... BILL LOMBARDI It's critical for architects to understand the different manners in which children learn. You need a... JAMES KOSTER Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if
it is a headache, a chore, and a ... HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST") Once we learn the circuitry for attention, we plan to use that to drive learning in an efficient way... ERIC KNUDSEN Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. CRAIG BROWN Listen first, then you can teach. PATTY RASE HOPSON Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more a... ROBERT WINSTON Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come in... KARL KRAUS If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn. WILLIAM HULL I've noticed that men and women react very differently to other people's children. Women don't make ... STEVE ZAHN I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their a... T. J. MILLER From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special ... ALISON GOPNIK The program involves more personalization. The one-on-one attention is such a conducive way of learn... KAREN MURPHY Children Learn What They Live DOROTHY LAW NOLTE We hope a death like this that (affects) a family so much for so long can help another family. We wa... JACK BURKE Adults are only children with a few more years on top. CJ HECK That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la... PETER DAVID But a group of toddlers making up a story together is a much richer learning experience than draggin... CLAIRE LERNER This series takes a laugh-and-learn approach to learning something new about your body, as well as s... KAREN THOMAS We're a very young team. We're learning, but we're also struggling as we learn. LEROY FRANKLIN Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeated... INGA MUSCIO Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem... DAVID WALLIAMS Children inquisitive minds learn by destruction. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a... JACK WILD We're always coming away from shows and learning something new, and we always listen and learn. DONNA HINTON It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER Children change a lot faster than adults do, and kids are remarkably resilient. DR. EVA RITVO Children change a lot faster than adults do, and kids are remarkably resilient. DR EVA RITVO Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn... JASON ISBELL We thought it would be a real plus for our children to learn some basic computer skills, and they lo... KAREN PHILLIPS The responsibility for protecting children rests with adults. By taking the time to learn about sex ... LEZLIE KEHR [New learning was the third factor identified.] The more you learn, the more you can learn, ... We k... IAN ROBERTSON
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