Brain Development Quotes

• Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Children, Fall, Thinking

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• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  Dalai Lama

  Education, Buddhist, Views

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• Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Father, Reading

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• Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Years, America

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Real, Impact

  "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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• In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

  Oliver Sacks

  Reading, Writing, Musical

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• Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.

  Tim Kaine

  Weed, Dad, Smoking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

  John B. Larson

  Teenager, Brain, Development

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Brain, Generations

  Source: therumpus.net

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