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  • 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.

    David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • 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.

    Childhood   Dollars   Pay  
  • 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.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

    "The First Thousand Days of a Baby’s Life" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.
  • 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.

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

    Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.
  • The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

  • 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.

    "Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals". Barack Obama's speech at the Take Back America 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, www.ontheissues.org. June 19, 2007.
  • 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.

    Mother   Two   Childhood  
    "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.
  • 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.

    Husband   Block   Home  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

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

    John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”
  • Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

  • 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.

    Source: www.theatlantic.com
  • 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.

    Children   Past   Support  
    David Elkind (1993). “Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education”, National Assn for the Education
  • Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

    Mean   Exercise   Men  
  • Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

  • 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.

    School   Marijuana   Long  
  • Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

    Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”
  • Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  • 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

  • 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.

    Source: www.politico.com
  • If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

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

    "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.
  • 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."

    "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.
  • 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.

    Source: www.theatlantic.com
  • 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.

    David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press
  • The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

  • 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.

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