Richard Simmons Quotes

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

By playing, you learn.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries raised me.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.