Quotes About Early Childhood Education

"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"

~ James Heckman (Nobel Laureate in Economics)

"Early education is most certainly the next wave of educational reform...the U.S. is simply playing catch up with the rest of the industrialized world."

~Dr. Donna Shalala ( Former Secretary of Health and Human Services)

"Effective preschool raises achievement levels for all children, and it offers real hope for closing the school-readiness gap."

~ Jack O'Connell (CA State Superintendent of Education)

"Ensuring that children have positive experiences prior to entering school is likely to lead to better outcomes than remediation programs at a later age, and significant up-front costs can generate a strong return on investment."

~ Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

"Children who participate in (high-quality Early Childhood Education) programs are more likely to have the necessary skills-such as abstract reasoning, problem solving and communication-to meet the demands of tomorrows workforce."

~Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America



Favorite Quotes About Children

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"Tell the children the truth."
~Bob Marley

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
~Mohandas Gandhi

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."
~Maria Montessori

"Children show scars like medals."
~Leonard Cohen

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."
~Charles Darwin

"Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children."
~Bill Hicks

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
~Sitting Bull

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Healthy Families in Early Childhood Education

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important." 
~Barbara Colrose  

Quotes About Our Childhood

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

 There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. 
~Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.
~Christopher Morley, To a Child

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
~Sam Ewing

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. 
~Malcolm de Chazal

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out.  In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
~Robert Brault

 If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
~Tom Stoppard

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