Quotations From Influential People In Early Childhood Education

“Play is the highest phase of child development.” - Friedrich Froebel
Essa, E (2007), Introduction to Early Childhood Education, Revised Edition,
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“The greatest crime that society is committing is…wasting money it should spend for its children.”

-Maria Montessori

Essa, E (2007), Introduction to Early Childhood Education, Revised Edition, pp. 147

“Teaching is the expediting of learning: A person who is taught learns more quickly than one who is not.” 

– B(hurrus) F(rederick) Skinner

Essa, E (2007), Introduction to Early Childhood Education, Revised Edition

 “It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even longer childhood.”

- Eric Erickson

Essa, E (2007), Introduction to Early Childhood Education, Revised Edition , pp.148

“When I think about passion, I have to embrace who I am as a woman, who I am as terms of being a Latino leader and what my family has taught me that creates a greater foundation for my passion.“ 

  

“Today my passion as a professional really is to bring my ideas in action into changing policy and into changing practice and influencing theory.“   The Passion of Early Childhood Walden Multi -Media Presentation  

-Leticia Lara, LCSW, Regional Manager

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