Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields. — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
“children are under our care; we need to take good care of them!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development. — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned. — Dorothy Nolte Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
In many cases, the reason why our child development centers are not at full capacity is that we have an insufficient number… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues,… — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child… — Dorothy Moore Copy Share Image
A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
“There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“The combination of the Main brain with its central nervous system, and the ancient Animal Brain with its somatic, enteric nervous system… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
“Families are setting aside more money to buy school books every year, yet there is no budget for the Bible. Sad, isn’t… — Benjamin Nzuki Copy Share Image
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
“Ellington would be growing up in a culture saturated with an idea you might call the cognitive hypothesis: the belief... that success… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Although parents and teachers are forever telling children to “grow up,” maturation cannot be commanded. One cannot teach a child to be… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“God wanted parents to train their children in the way of the Lord. Deuteronomy 6:1, 2 says: “These are the commands, decrees… — Benjamin Nzuki Copy Share Image
“Cizek had used art as the point of entry of his thinking into a whole new world of education—an avenue that had… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“Our cultures make it seem as if male children are worthier than female ones, but that is not the case. The value… — Benjamin Nzuki Copy Share Image
“In 1971, Congress had approved the Comprehensive Child Development Act, which would have provided child care on a sliding fee scale to… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future. — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“When we hurt children, it is God’s plan we indirectly try to frustrate, since it is for His pleasure that people exist.” — Benjamin Nzuki Copy Share Image
“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.” — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that people who interact with your children will influence them. If they are godless, they will influence your… — Benjamin Nzuki Copy Share Image
“What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
