Words of Inspiration and Motivation

"We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later."
                                                                                                        ~Lilian Katz, PhD~

"Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experiences."
                                                                                                         ~Lilian Katz, PhD~

"Curriculum is not delivered. Milk is delivered."
                                                                                                           ~ Lilian Katz, PhD~

"Developmentally appropriate practices are ways of teaching that vary for or adapt to the age and experience of the individual learner. So fundamentally the definition…has been expanded to include the fact that not only do you have to consider children as individuals, but you also have to consider children as members of groups with their own cultural identities."
                                                                                                           ~Susan Bredekamp, PhD~

"Two key concepts in developmentally appropriate planning are to set reasonable but challenging goals for each child and to meet children where they are."
                                                                                                           ~Susan Bredekamp, PhD~

"My passion is to create a safer, more just world for kids."
                                                                                                           ~Louise Derman-Sparks~

"I have an opportunity to shape a child's life through early childhood education."
                                                                                                           ~Sandy Escobido~

"My passion comes from wanting to make a difference...helping one child be successful in the classroom."                                                                                       
                                                                                                           ~Raymond Hernandez~

"It's not all about you...take ego out and do what is best for the child."
                                                                                                           ~Renatta Cooper~

"Passion is an ongoing, evolving process."
                                                                                                           ~Leticia Lara~

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
                                                                                                           ~Maria Montessori~

 

"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."                                                                                                           ~Maria Montessori~

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."                                                                                                           ~Stacia Tauscher~

 

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
                                                                                                          ~Chinese proverb~

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."
                                                                                                          ~Ever Garrison~

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
                                                                                                         ~George Bernard Shaw~

 

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
                                                                                                        ~Socrates~

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
                                                                                                  ~Roslyn Carter~