Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.

Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

Kids are smarter than you realize.