QUOTES / EXCERPT  FROM CONTRIBUTORS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD FIELD

Doug Lemov

“great art relies on the mastery and application of functional skills, learned individually through diligent study.”


You must distinguish between incompetence and defiance, responding to incompetence with teaching and defiance with consequence.

Deborah Leong

"Children need play in order to learn. Good, old-fashioned play - with an empty box or simple rag doll - provides something very important to later growth and development."

Louise Derman- Spark

“Children are still try to figure out all their different identities and try to figure out who others people are”.

Renatta M. Cooper

“Childhood leaves you ready for optimal life experiences”.