Early Childhood Quotes - Page 3

• For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Productive Work, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Childhood, Cost

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

  Riane Eisler

  Childhood, Training, Wages

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free to change our minds, and as we change our minds, our experiences will also change.

  M. J. Ryan

  Attitude, Childhood, Mind

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.26, Conari Press

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• I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Communication, School

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• No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Past

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.3, Bantam

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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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• 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.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Husband, Block, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Shakira

  Country, Latin, Commitment

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Childhood, Thrust

  "Morgan Freeman on econophysics, Easy Reader, and The Shawshank Redemption". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 4, 2014.

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• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

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• In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Childhood, Energy

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• Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

  Thomas Keating

  Thinking, Self, Childhood

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.

  Steve Sailer

  Real, Differences, Glasses

  "A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics". www.vdare.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Design, Childhood

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential. That means our work won't be done until every child has access to quality education from early childhood to adulthood.

  Shakira

  Children, Mean, Goal

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

  Shakira

  Children, College, Childhood

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.

  Shakira

  School, Medicine, Achievement

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Childhood, Gold, Fascination

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• In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.

  Shakira

  Tough Economic Times, Childhood, Dollars

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• 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.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Ocean, Europe, People

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that's going back to before the child is born - making sure the mother is well nourished and the child is properly nurtured.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

  Robert Greenwald

  Childhood, Quality, Dollars

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• If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Childhood, Important

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Children, Focus, Childhood

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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