Wise Child Quotes

“What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.”
― Monica Furlong

“Here you will never learn anything just because girls do it. But it’s a pity not to do things just because girls do them. Work must be done for its own sake.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child

“The wise child realizes there are limits to organizing everything. Sometimes it is better to stop; just have fun and do as you like. If a person goes too far in organizing everything all of the time, that is when common sense fails; that is when real trouble happens.”
― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, Voyage to the Sun: A Children's Version of the Tao te Ching