Early Learning Quotes
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
– Maya Angelou
“A deeper understanding of the child empowers us as educators to deepen relationships and educate appropriately and proactively.”
– Kathy Walker
“The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.”
– Fred G. Gosman
“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.”
– Robert Brault
“You will always be your child’s favorite toy.”
– Vicki Lansky
“While we try to teach children all about life, Our children teaach us what life is all about.”
– Angela Schwindt
“Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.”
– Plato
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”
– Kate Dicamillo
“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
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”
– Maria Montessori