Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

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.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

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

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons