Education Psychology Quotes

“Imagine you were asked in a maths paper at junior school, 'Which would you prefer, a shilling or two sixpences?' and you answered, 'Two sixpences,' because thinking of the two tiny silver coins jingling together in your pocket made you feel good and you loved those cute little sixpences. But when the test paper was returned you saw a big red cross through your answer, and that night your mother explained to you that it was a trick question, two sixpences and a shilling were worth the same amount – which you knew, but you'd still prefer two sixpences. It wasn't that you were stupid, you just saw things from a different angle. Sixpences had character, shillings didn't. And you felt richer with two sixpences because there were two coins, not just one. But despite all these explanations, you were still wrong and you kept getting tripped up by these trick questions over and over again, in exams, in relationships, friendships, jobs and interviews. In fact, these misreadings of situations happened so often that you started to view the world as a tricksy and untruthful place. Then you noticed that the people who saw the tricks behind the questions were popular and always at the top of the class. Baffled by life and its unseen rules, you began to doubt everything around you. You felt you had to approach all of life as a trick, just to get it right a few times.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“Students are not to pursue institutes, they are to pursue understanding.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Les fondements des apprentissages psychomoteurs:
Chaque notion est abordée:
- D'abord par des exercices moteurs.
- Ensuite par des exercices sensorimoteurs.
- Enfin par des exercices perceptivomoteurs .”
― A. de Meur, Psychomotricité: éducation et rééducation

“Pour la plupart des enfants qui vivent une scolarité difficile, la cause du problème ne se situe pas au niveau de la classe où ils sont arrivés mais bien avant, au niveau des bases.”
― L. Staes, Psychomotricité: éducation et rééducation

“වේවැල පාසලකට අත්‍යවශ්‍යම දෙයක් නොවේ. ඒ නැතිව පාසලක් පාලනය කළ හැකිය. පාසල් බිමේ කොතැනක යතත් වේවැල රැගෙන යන විදුහල්පතිවරු වෙති. ඔවුන් සුදුසු වන්නේ හරකුන් රකින්නට විනා ළමයින් රකින්නට නොවේ.”
― ඇන්. ටී. කරුණාතිලක, දිග ගමනක කෙටි සටහන්

“Les dix commandements de l’éducation des enfants :
1. Donnez des soins continus, cohérents, aimants – c’est aussi essentiel pour la santé de l’esprit que la nourriture l’est pour le corps.
2. Donnez généreusement votre temps et votre compréhension – jouer avec votre enfant et lui faire la lecture compte plus qu’un ménage bien tenu.
3. Procurez de nouvelles expériences à votre enfant, faites-le baigner dans le langage dès la naissance – cela favorise le développement de son esprit.
4. Encouragez-le à jouer de toutes les manières, aussi bien tout seul qu’avec d’autres enfants – à explorer, à imiter, à construire, à faire semblant et à créer.
5. Félicitez-le plus de ses efforts que de ses réussites.
6. Donnez-lui des responsabilités toujours plus grandes.
7. Rappelez-vous que chaque enfant est unique – une attitude adaptée à l’un peut ne pas convenir à l’autre.
8. Adaptez votre manière de manifester votre désapprobation au tempérament, à l’âge et à la compréhension de votre enfant.
9. Ne le menacez jamais de cesser de l’aimez ou de l’abandonner – vous pouvez rejeter son comportement, mais sans jamais suggérer que vous pourriez le rejeter lui.
10. N’attendez pas de reconnaissance ; votre enfant n’avait pas demandé à naître – c’est vous qui l’avez décidé.”
― Mia Kellmer Pringle, The Needs of Children: A personal perspective