Child Intelligence Quotes

You don't have to sugar coat things for kids. If you make something for them with intelligence they will show that intelligence in ways that will sometimes shock you.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

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

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

I've always felt that kids are really smart.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

We respect that children are smart, sophisticated and can handle things that adults typically don't think they can.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Children are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Kids are smarter than you realize.