Fred Hoyle Quotes

I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10.

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

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

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

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

My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.

I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game Boy and PlayStations and a TV, she gave me educational software on our family computer for Math and stuff.

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

I think I learned how to swim before I could walk.

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

At ten I was bright.

I could read music before I could read words.

I was kind of advanced for my age, just because I started early, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. And my dad always had me playing with older groups.

I think educating children at pre-school age is vital because then they are picking up good habits that become part of their lifestyle, so it's never going to be a big issue for them to have to learn how to do it.