Top 1200 Early Childhood Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

Since my early childhood, I've played drums in visuals as well as sound.

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. It's really not rocket science: Put kids on the right path at an early age - and keep them there.

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.

We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect. If we could eliminate the vestiges of racism, if we could develop a more powerful agenda for child care, child development, and a more powerful education system, we could prevent a lot of the incapacities which in turn tend to generate structural unemployment.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

I have 9 children; I'm a big believer in childhood education, but we've got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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.

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

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.

My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.

My People First Education plan includes universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, because the research is very clear that if you have a dollar to spend in education, it's best spent early on with high-quality pre-K so that kids can get off to a strong start.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this practical, artistic approach.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.

A high-quality childhood education program has long lasting benefits on our society as a whole.

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

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

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

I got an early education from television.

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los Angeles.

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.