Quotes About Learning

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?