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Child development Quotes

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects in the same way"

"The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."

"Reading to your kids creates a consciousness of love and words together."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time."

"Education must begin at birth."

"Children need the emotional presence of their caregivers to thrive"

"The most important question in the world is, Why is the child crying?"

"I'm not raising children, I'm raising the grown-ups they're going to be"

"We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate those"

"My hope is that we can change the way that we think about early childhood and transform lives for generations to come, because I truly believe big change starts small."

"The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn."

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn"

"I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow down"

"Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself."

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