Early Childhood Education Quotes

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Goal, Childhood

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Environment, Rich

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

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Parenting

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "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.

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• 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

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Caring

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• 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.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Children, College, Childhood

  "An Opportunity Plan to Empower Women in the Workplace" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2013.

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

  Maria Montessori

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

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• 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.

  Marilyn Jager Adams

  Children, Reading, Skills

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Childhood, Birth, Early Childhood

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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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

  Children, Practice, Numbers

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

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• 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

  Education, Children, Opportunity

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

  Betty Smith

  Children, Reading, Printed Word

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