Julie Payette Quotes

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

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.

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

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

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

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

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

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

If we educate our kids well, they will be more competitive.

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

Kids are smarter than you realize.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.