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Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.

— Tony Buzan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

— Tom Robbins

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

— Bob Ehrlich

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

— Mem Fox

Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'

— Ann Leckie

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

— George Jessel

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

— Tom T. Hall

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

— Sam Kean

✗Opposing Perspectives

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

— Alison Gopnik

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

— Ali Hewson