“Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.” KnowsCareSchoolChoicesConsciousUnconsciousGood EducationConscious And UnconsciousDay CareBad Education Author:James L Hymes
“Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.” ThinkingMindChildrenIdeasPlayUseProblemBodyYoungLanguageSocialMemoriesMetsActivitySkillsOrganizationResponsePlanningLeisureProblem SolvingMind And BodyStimulusRecreationYoung ChildrenInvestigatingLeisure TimeSocial Skills Author:James L Hymes
“Children learn to care by experiencing good care. They come to know the blessings of gentleness, or sympathy, of patience and kindness, of support and backing first through the way in which they themselves are treated.” KnowsWayFirstsChildrenCareKindnessSupportBlessingTreatedGentleness Author:James L Hymes