Quotes

Quotes About Play
2-1-14

"Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning."

-David Elkind

 

"Play is our brain's favorite way of learning."

-Dianne Ackerman

 

"Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn."

-O. Fred Donaldson





Quotes About Children 
 12-16-13

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

-Lady Bird Johnson

 

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."

-George Evans

 

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning.  But for children, play is serious learning. Play really is the work of early childhood."

-Fred Rogers

 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

-George Bernard Shaw

 

Quotes from Early Childhood Professionals
9-28-13

"Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly.  Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves."
- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

"I was on the National Commission for Children and Families and we went around the country looking at what was happening to families and children.  And we found that we're the least child-and family-oriented society in the civilized world.  And we also saw the price that we're paying:  angry, contained, unavailable children who can't learn."
-T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

"Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children.  We must recognize that the welfare of our children is intimately lined to the welfare of all other people's children.  After all, when one of our children needs life-saving surgery, someone else's child will perform it.  If one of our children is harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act.  The good life for our own children can be secured if a good life is also secured for all other people's children."
- Dr. Lilian G. Katz

"The passion to create a safer, more just world for all kids is there and I suppose will be there till I die, and maybe even after."
- Louise Derman-Sparks

"My passion really stems from my personal experience growing up."
-Sandy Eslobido