Isaac Asimov Quotes about Children

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Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Isaac Asimov

Children, Envy, Bird

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Isaac Asimov

Children, Real, Educational

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Isaac Asimov

Children, Science, Lifelong