Quotes of Inspiration, Motivation and Commitment from Early Childhood Professionals

Quotes of Inspiration, Motivation and Commitment from Early Childhood Professionals

Hilary Clinton 67th US Secretary of State

·         Children rely on safe neighborhoods, good teachers, readily available health-care and many other facets of "The Village" to be raised properly

Hilary Clinton 67th US Secretary of State:

·        No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children

Hillary Rodham Clinton Quotes Retrieved from

http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_h_clinton.htm

Sue Bredekamp:

·        If the first three years of life are deprived in terms of stimulation and interaction with warm, nurturing human beings, it's going to be real tough for the child to acquire the depth and breadth of verbal language needed to build reading abilities.

           

ECT Interview: Sue Bredekamp & Susan Neuman on Learning to...

Sue Bredekamp:

·        Knowledge is not something that is given to children as though they were empty vessels to be filled. Children acquire knowledge about the physical and social worlds in which they live through playful interaction with objects and people. Children do not need to be forced to learn; they are motivated by their own desire to make sense of their world

 How Young Children Learn retrieved from

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea1lk1-1.htm

Louise Derman-Sparks:

·         Early childhood teachers want children to feel powerful and competent. They strive to welcome children and to show respect to their families as best they know how. However, beyond individual teachers’ hopes, beliefs, and actions is a society that has built advantage and disadvantage into its institutions and systems.

Anti-Bias Education - National Association for the Education of ...Retrieved from

http://www.naeyc.org/store/files/store/TOC/254.pdf

 
 Raymond Hernandez:

·        says that as an administer he wants to keep up the hard work to make a difference in the community, the same way people offered it to him; because if you can make a difference in a child’s life then that one child will make a difference in another person’s life.

Course Media: "The Passion for Early Childhood"