Best Early Childhood Education Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Your name is your story — wear it with pride.”

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Book:My Name Is Who I Am

Source: My Name Is Who I Am

“Since the subject I most wish to learn is the children, I must concentrate on this play, for they will teach me who they are by the fantasies they explore.”

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Author:Vivian Gussin Paley

“Moments like these underline the importance of adults reserving their own personal judgments and accepting the child's wishes and actions. Awareness of potential schematic underpinnings also help us value and appreciate behaviors so that we can accept what the child may be showing us. Although firm conclusions can rarely be drawn, reflections remind us of the potentially multiple benefits of schematic actions for a child, and also the value in repetitive behaviors which tend to be labeled as negative. Educators should remain curious about a child's seeds of inquiry and make more such opportunities available to meet this need.”

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Book:Schemas in the Early Years

Source: Schemas in the Early Years

“Noticing the potential message in children's behaviors and responding appropriately and respectfully is our aim. Reflecting upon Becky's enclosing and tying-up of her toys, it is clear that she needed the freedom to safely express herself without judgment and for an adult to interact and not interfere. Many adults seek to control children's play or stop them if they see a child playing in ways they deem inappropriate.”

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Book:Schemas in the Early Years

Source: Schemas in the Early Years

“The open teacher, like a good therapist, establishes rapport and resonance, sensing unspoken needs, conflicts, hopes, and fears. Respecting the learner's autonomy, the teacher spends more time helping to articulate the urgent questions than demanding right answers.”

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Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time

“If [the preschool teacher] is well read in theories of development and instruction, and well supplied with human empathy, the result can be a rare blend of science and humanism.”

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Author:Michael Cole

“In constantly responding to preconceived ideas, children lose opportunities to demonstrate original thinking, organize concepts, and design formats which capture their intent. Prescribed curriculum, an exclusively predetermined learning agenda, ignores the contexts that are naturally created by childhood. Although some elements of prescription have value in planning curriculum, the notion of the "child's curriculum" has long been buried under layers of national, state, district, and school mandates.”

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Book:Design Technology: Children's Engineering

Source: Design Technology: Children's Engineering

“It may seem unrealistic to expect that teachers should love their students, but the more I delve into the research on teaching, the more it seems to converge on the importance of love--not the type between parents and their children, surely, but love in the sense that Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela meant it, a faith we choose to have in the inherent worth and dignity of another human being.”

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Book:Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides - Library Edition

Source: Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides - Library Edition

“One of our first gifts is the ability to pay attention with all our senses and come to know the world. When we know the beings around us, we can't help but celebrate the gifts they share with us every day. And so our next gift is gratitude. And that thankfulness spills out when we ask ourselves: "What gift could I give, in return for all I've been given?”

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Book:Bud Finds Her Gift

Source: Bud Finds Her Gift

“My hope is that this glimpse into Bud's journey will inspire readers of all ages to understand we each have a special gift and are part of the great gift exchange of life. In the face of our shared ecological and social challenges, I hope you will feel your own importance and purpose and know that you are needed, that you belong, and that giving your gifts can help to create and nurture a beautiful, sustainable world where all life can flourish.”

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Book:Bud Finds Her Gift

Source: Bud Finds Her Gift

“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

“We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”

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Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

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

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Author:Maria Montessori

“Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.”

“If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.”

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Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.”

Source: Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education

“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”

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Author:C. Sommerville

“Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.”

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Author:David Brooks

“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.”

“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.”

“If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.”

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Author:Riane Eisler

“Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.”

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Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”

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Author:Betty Smith

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”

“Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.”

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Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers”

“And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.”

“The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.”

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Author:Dorothy Nolte

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.”

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Author:Andy Hargreaves

“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

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