Roald Dahl Quotes

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.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

Physical development fosters learning.

Children are just little scientists.

You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.