Learning Foundation Quotes

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.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

...The wisest of all ages have acknowledged that the most important period in human education is in childhood.. - - This most important part of education is left entirely in the hands of the mother. She prepares the soil for future culture.... But the mother cannot give what she does not possess; weakness cannot impart strength.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

Education must start from birth.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

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.

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent.