"We need to engage with our children, so they see themselves as people who can make a difference."
- Marian Wright Edelman
"Each of us can make a difference in small ways, just speaking to kids, smiling at them, letting them know we care." - Marian Wright Edelman
"Young people are the leaders of tomorrow, the mothers, fathers, and teachers of future generations." - Maria Montessori
"From an early age, they need to be engaged in meaningful activity to develop their critical thinking and their abilities to solve problems in a peaceful manner." - Maria Montessori
"Children are stil trying to figure out all their different identities, and still trying to figure out who other people are and still being daily bombarded by both negative and positive messages about who they are." - Louise Derman-Sparks, Professor Emeritus
"A passion that all children are taught in environments and ways that truly nurtured their ability to grow and develop to their fullest ability." - Louise Derman-Sparks, Professor Emeritus
"We in the early childhood field have the opportunity to shape a child's future for the better."- Sandy Escobedo, MS
"I am not here to save the world, but to make a difference in the community that I am working, and making a difference may sometimes mean helping one child to be successful in the classroom."
- Raymond Hernandez, MSEd
"...working intently with children and families was almost like earning a doctorate degree..."
- Renatta Marie Cooper, MA
"I believe women should have a choice, and one of those choices should be not to use child care. Stay home with their child if that is what they want to do."- Renatta Marie Cooper, MA
"From a young age, I realised that families need support." - Leticia Lara, LCSW
"My passion as a professional, really is to bring my ideas and actions into changing policy, into changing practice and influencing research." - Leticia Lara, LCSW
I love your second quote by Marian Wright Edelman which spoke about the little things that make a difference in a child's life be it a hug, a smile and just being there and showing that we care for them can have a significant impact on the child and they even remember the simple act for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteShinelle thank you for stopping by. Your explanation is very accurate. They are indeed very simple gestures yet so many people forget to do them.
DeleteI love that you included a quote from the video we watched in class. That same quote by Renatta Marie Cooper spoke to me as well. I had never thought about early childhood education as a "feminist issue", but I havn't been able to not think of it this way since viewing Cooper's excerpt.
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