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“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.”

Should Children Desire Goal Natural Childhood Early Childhood Activate Desire To Learn Early Childhood Education

Author:Maria Montessori

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.”

Years Children States Past Social Goal Change Childhood Special Changed Periods Demand Adults Importance Ill Eras Lasting Temporary Conception Protected Adulthood Over The Past Unreasonable

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest about their goals and most satisfied with their lives and personal and family relationships usually remember that their fathers enjoyed them and were actively interested in their development.”

Important Seems Age Remember Father Goal Childhood Development Satisfied Enjoyed Family Relationship

Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.”

Knows Self Goal Black White Childhood Married Workers Dishes Black Women Liberating Lifelong

Author:Gerda Lerner

“In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.”

Facts Goal Lines Poor Behinds Childhood Fronts Balls Photograph Viewers Goalkeepers

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.”

Ifs Want Feels Has Beens Sometimes Bits Goal Taken Sacrifice Childhood Achieve Tiny Achieving Your Goals

Author:Freddy Adu

“As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.”

Wells May Persons Long Has Beens Character Dream School Earth Reading Goal Childhood Middle Events Honesty College Ideals Philosopher Annoyed Narnia Grad Middle Earth Grad School

Author:N.D. Wilson

“When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.”

Humans Persons Dream Reality Goal Chance Results Common Plans Childhood Moon Surface Exploration Metals Founders Participation Chairman Robotics Minerals Childhood Dreams Precious Metal

Author:Naveen Jain

“The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential. That means our work won't be done until every child has access to quality education from early childhood to adulthood.”

Mean Children Done Goal Chance Quality Childhood Access Adulthood Philanthropic Early Childhood Quality Education

Author:Shakira

“If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.”

Country Enough Problem School Opportunity Goal Poor Focus Childhood Students College Baby Rate Education System Completion Early Childhood

Author:Arne Duncan

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”

Would Be Goal Childhood Ideals Genuine Maturity Mature

Book:Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose

Source: Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose