Birth Quote by Caroline Pratt

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If…

— Maria Montessori

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic…

— Karl Rahner

When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

— Maria Montessori

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone…

— Shakira

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial…

— Maria Montessori

The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person…

— Bruno Bettelheim

It is known that the first few years of a child's education are so important.

— Gavin Williamson

“In fact, he can’t remember a single case in which the development of purpose unfolded without the earlier observation of a purposeful role model.…

— Angela Duckworth

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

— Dirk Benedict

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

— Abraham Lincoln