David Dinkins Quotes

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

You learn a lot from kids.

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

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

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

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

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

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

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

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.