Early Childhood Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.

  John Goddard

  Ambition, Animal, Boys

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• Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

  David Elkind

  Children, Practice, Numbers

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

  Catherine Taylor

  Home, Numbers, Childhood

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• New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places.

  Pedro Noguera

  New York, Kids, Class

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.

  Pedro Noguera

  Kids, Thinking, Class

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

  Vangelis

  Writing, Space, Childhood

  "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.

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• My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

  Matt Damon

  Mother, Two, Childhood

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Long, Childhood, Portraits

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• Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Feminist, Childhood, Identity

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• Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

  Edmund Gosse

  Thinking, Errors, Parent

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• I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Friendship, Dog, Long

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• I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

  Basil W. Maturin

  Believe, Views, Childhood

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• If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

  Paul Vallas

  Kids, Childhood, Fields

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• Los recuerdos de tu infancia parecen tener tanta influencia en tus emociones. Son tan concretos.

  Dana Spiotta

  Memories, Childhood, Emotion

  "Live Chat with Dana Spiotta". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Cada persona decide en la primera infancia cómo vivirá y cómo morirá... Su comportamiento trivial puede ser decidido por la razón, pero sus decisiones importantes ya han sido tomadas: con qué tipo de persona se casará, cuántos hijos tendrá, en qué tipo de cama morirá... Es increíble pensar, al principio, que el destino del hombre, toda su nobleza y toda su degradación, lo decide un niño de no más de seis años, y normalmente de tres... (pero) es muy fácil creerlo viendo lo que pasa hoy en el mundo, y lo que pasó ayer, y viendo lo que pasará mañana.

  Eric Berne

  Children, Believe, Fate

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• Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  School, Marijuana, Long

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• En un instante mágico de tu primera infancia, la página de un libro -esa sarta de cifras confusas y extrañas- cobró sentido. Las palabras te hablaron, te revelaron sus secretos; en ese momento, se abrieron universos enteros. Te convertiste, irrevocablemente, en lector.

  Alberto Manguel

  Confused, Book, Childhood

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• It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Wind, Childhood, Kingdoms

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2014). “The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Childhood, Birth, Early Childhood Education

  "The First Thousand Days of a Baby’s Life" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Después de que todo haya terminado, la primera infancia, una cadena de cumpleaños entretejidos con la luz de las velas, montones de regalos, voces de parientes cantando y alabando tu promesa y tu futuro, después de los años de escolarización, encajándote en pupitres de diferentes tamaños, memorizando, recitando, informando y actuando para un jurado tras otro de profesores, consejeros y administradores, sigues sintiéndote inadecuado, solo, vulnerable y desnudo en un mundo que puede ser implacable y terriblemente exigente.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Profesor, Años, Voz

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• Imagínense que todos los niños recibieran una auténtica educación infantil de alta calidad y que, de repente, todos los niños negros de Estados Unidos -pero también todos los niños blancos o latinos pobres, pero quédense con todos los niños negros de Estados Unidos- recibieran una educación realmente buena. Y se gradúan de la escuela secundaria al mismo ritmo que los blancos, y van a la universidad al mismo ritmo que los blancos, y pueden pagar la universidad al mismo ritmo porque el gobierno tiene programas universales. Así que ahora todos se están graduando.

  Barack Obama

  Niños, escuela, universidad

  Fuente: www.theatlantic.com

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• La mejor manera de mejorar la mano de obra estadounidense en el siglo XXI es invertir en educación infantil, para garantizar que incluso los niños más desfavorecidos tengan la oportunidad de triunfar junto a sus compañeros más aventajados.

  James Heckman

  Educación, Infancia, Oportunidad

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• The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.

  David Elkind

  Children, Past, Support

  David Elkind (1993). “Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education”, National Assn for the Education

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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