Willa Cather Quotes

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Whilst a man may escape from the burden of an unlucky name, or from the contempt attaching to a city of no repute, by changing the one or quitting the other, he can never remedy the neglect of early education. The foundation, therefore, of this last must be laid in the first years of life, the disposition molded whilst it is susceptible and the mind trained whilst it is retentive.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

...The wisest of all ages have acknowledged that the most important period in human education is in childhood.. - - This most important part of education is left entirely in the hands of the mother. She prepares the soil for future culture.... But the mother cannot give what she does not possess; weakness cannot impart strength.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

Education must start from birth.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?