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“Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.”

Results Teaching Adults Fundamentals Assuming Unusual Spontaneous

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.”

World Three Language Devil Adults Assuming Handful Foreigners Profanity Three Words Basques

Author:Jan Morris

“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.”

Children Force Interest Teaching Adults Empty Assuming Formulas Parrots Life Teaching

Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs “comforting,” while the stressed adult needs “medicine”?”

Needs Wells Children Cry Adults Cat Medicine Assuming Frightened Distress Infant Comforting Stressed Usefulness Soothing

Author:Deane Juhan

“I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.”

Knows Ideas Wanted Certain Rich Adults Assuming No Idea Farms

Author:Tim Winton

“Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.”

Feels Children Young Responsibility Adults Assuming

Author:Martha Beck

“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”

Love Feels Children Return Adults Assuming

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Enough Able Belief Adults Intelligent Assuming Civility

Author:Julian Baggini

“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”

Ifs Feels May Enough Energy Force Adults Assuming Average Thirty Bombs Modest Robust Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb Potential Energy

Author:Bill Bryson

“When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.”

People Thinking Sometimes Kids Parent Figures Quiet Authority Smart Percent Adults Assuming Raised Worthy Idiot Respectful Interacting Older People Be Respectful Authority Figures

Author:Mindy Kaling