Top 1200 Children Learning Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.

I don't think discovery of a new planet has a huge meaning for children now, but what it means is the world they're growing up in is very different from children of previous generations. We had Star Trek, Star Wars and Futurama - and we still do - but for children today, they will grow up in a world where other stars were known.

The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

When I go to throw a punch, actually, my intention is to hit somebody. That's just second nature to me. So you have to just rewire yourself. It's not something where you have to sit and subconsciously think about it, but you kind of have to just put yourself in that mode and go with it. Learning the fight scenes, I've never had to learn choreography before, so learning the fight scenes was like learning a dance or something like that. I had a little bit of influence in the fight scenes and I tried to put as much influence there as I could, but I had fun doing it.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to the level I would like to be at. My focus is still 100% acting acting acting. Once I hit a point where I feel very comfortable as an actor - because you can never stop learning, I don't care how comfortable you get, you can never stop learning - but once I hit a point where I can get that comfort level of taking on the task of directing and having the confidence in myself to have people's respect when I give them direction, that's definitely something I want to do someday.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.

Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here.

In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

I watched my children grow up, then they left home and had their own children. You miss them.

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's book.

Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

I think the love small children give to their parents is unconditional. Even if children are abandoned or nearly killed by their parents, they will still love them. No matter what. That's why parents shouldn't let their children go, no matter what. She betrayed my love. I don't want to see her.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.