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“We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.”

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Author:Tim Kaine

“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

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Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

“He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.”

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Author:Woody Harrelson

“I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.”

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Author:Sophie Swetchine

“One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.”

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Author:Jenna McCarthy

“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."”

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Author:Robin Williams

“In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.”

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Author:Shakira

“A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.”

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Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.”

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Author:Dogen

“My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.”

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Author:Vasily Smyslov