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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

“If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.”

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Author:Akiane Kramarik

“I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.”

Thinking Children Remember Approach Curiosity Unending

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.”

“A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thoughtwhat on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.”

Wells Children Eye Earth Beautiful Hope Clear Curiosity Hope Love

Book:Stuart of Dunleath: a story of modern times

Source: Stuart of Dunleath: a story of modern times

“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.”

Needs Children Seems Age Dies Natural Curiosity Hunger Ignorant Explanation

Author:Mahlon Hoagland

“The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.”

“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.”

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Author:Roger Fouts

“As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.”

Thinking Heart Children Imagination Curiosity Anything Is Possible Newness Newness Of Life

Author:Yehuda Berg

“With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.”

Should Mind May Children Problem Growing Economic Development Adults Curiosity Openness Devoted Manhood Sympathetic Coping Economic Problems Unbiased Responsiveness

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history