Quotes About Curiosity

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People interest me so much. They're such wonderful puzzles. Think of it. Half the time we've no idea what we're doing, but we live anyway.

The small child walks to develop his powers, he is building up his being. He goes slowly. He has neither rhythmic step nor goal. But things around him allure him and urge him forward.

Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses.

She was quite surprised to notice that the "toys" she had placed in the room were among those things virtually untouched.

In addition to doing practical-life activities at home, many children by the time they are eighteen months old are ready to spend three hours a morning doing these (and other activities) in a setting outside their own home.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of 'play,' number one, was 'engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,' and number two was 'gambling.' And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.

so he proceeded with great caution into an alien landscape of the mind and the mind's eye.

Once she had found a box full of e-books and took one of them apart to see if there were some way it had stored books inside it, but there was nothing inside but things called components. A teacher explained that they didn't work anymore because the books that were supposed to appear on them had to be sent from a cloud that no longer existed. It didn't matter. There were so few clouds anyway in the blazing vacant sky.

Fantaseamos lo que no entendemos...Las situaciones que menos se comprenden excitan el inconsciente

I want to meet this one," he said. "I need to meet the girl who has taken our wandering Alexander's horse and cart.

Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?

Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?" Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already". "Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?" "I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know?

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

The teacher who does not respect the student's curiosity in its diverse aesthetic, linguistic, and syntactical expressions; who uses irony to put down legitimate questioning (recognizing of course that freedom is not absolute, that it requires of its nature certain limits); who is not respectfully present in the educational experience of the student, transgresses fundamental ethical principles of the human condition.

each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.

the epitome of negation in the context of education is the stifling or inhibition of curiosity in the learner

For the dialogical, problem-posing teacher-student, the program content of education is neither a gift nor an imposition—bits of information to be deposited in the students—but rather the organized, systematized, and developed "re-presentation" to individuals of the things about which they want to know more.