Bruno Maag Quotes

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

Men are visual creatures.

Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing.

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

I'm a visual learner, so with hand-eye coordination, I was a natural.

I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it.

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.