Intellectual Development Quotes

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." "I am a part of everything that I have read." "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions" "Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things" "To learn to think is to learn to live" "Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you" "The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling" "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art"