95 Early Education Quotes
Following is our list of early education quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about early childhood.
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Famous Early Education Quotes
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. — Paul Vallas
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. — Plato
Education, like neurosis, begins at home. — Milton Sapirstein
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. — Hosea Ballou
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. — Alfred North Whitehead
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. — Rachel Carson
One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education. — Barack Obama
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. — Sayings
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. — Plato
Education is the mother of leadership. — Wendell L. Willkie
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. — Maria Montessori
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. — Karl Marx
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. — Plato
Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! — Frank Van Dun
Short Early Education Quotes
- EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING — Bulleh Shah
- Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. — Donna Brazile
- The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. — William Wordsworth
- The importance of education plays a huge role. — Wes Moore
- The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. — Harry Wong
Early Childhood Education Quotes
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers — James Heckman
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. — Marilyn Jager Adams
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. — Dorothy Nolte
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. — Betty Smith
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
Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive. — Kathleen Wynne
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
The children are now working as if I did not exist. — Maria Montessori
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
We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself. — Tim Kaine
Early Childhood Quotes
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. — Bell Hooks
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. — Philip Zimbardo
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. — Rita Dove
The way we interact with people is influenced by our attachment style, which is deeply rooted in our early experiences. — Amir Levine
I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.' — Akira Toriyama
Our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement. — Angela Duckworth
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. — Dana Spiotta
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
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. — Frederick Reines
Children Education Quotes
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists — Jean Piaget
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. — Rudolf Steiner
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test. — Charlotte Mason
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it. — Paulo Freire
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin
People Writing About Early Education
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 Plato |
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 Maria Montessori |
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 Hosea Ballou |
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 Alfred North Whitehead |
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 Rachel Carson |
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 Barack Obama |
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More Early Education Quotes
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. — Richard P. Feynman
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. — Temple Grandin
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. — Robert A. Heinlein
And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping. — Alberto Juantorena
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them... — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. — Thomas Huxley
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak. — Guy Debord
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. — Francois Gautier
One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers. — Julio Cortazar
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college. — Winston Churchill
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
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. — Peter Agre
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
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward. — John Pople
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. — Cyril Connolly
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. — Christa McAuliffe
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. — Robert. L. Ehrlich
Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments. — Max Levchin
Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. — Winston Churchill
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. — Plato
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
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own. — George Washington
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
My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the extracurriculars I did - played a huge role in me finding my path. — Baratunde Thurston
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return. — J.B. Pritzker
If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource. — Peter Drucker
Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no. — Lincoln Chafee
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living. — Zach Wamp
Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results. — Frederick Douglass
I got an early education from television. — Debra Wilson
I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education. — Mitch Albom
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
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