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I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.