Age Appropriate Learning Quotes

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

You can learn at any age, but when you are young, you are like a sponge, and when you are introduced to more different types of things before the age of seven and eight, then you get fascinated by that.

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

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

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.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

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

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

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.