“None of our children can wait for more and better child care. My and our nation's biggest challenge is to see that every child who needs it receives good quality care. This includes care by the child's own parent in the early months of life - - something only a paid infant care leave could widely provide. When children do enter out-of-home care, we must do something to insure that it is good care. I cannot retire when I see so many of our children receiving care that is so poor in quality that their growth and development are compromised.” Edward Zigler Ph.D
“Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay -- it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.” Marian Wright-Edelman
“I had a built in passion that it was important to make a real contribution in the world and fix all the injustices and I wanted to do that through teaching”. Louise Derman-Sparks
“It’s not all about you, you got to take your ego out of it and think about what is best for the child and you care about them enough to help them transition to what will come next and what’s best” Renatta M. Cooper
Additional Quotes:
“It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it”. Maria Montessori
Quote from Edward Zigler tells us that the quality child care is most important not only related to the parents of the child but also related the caregive such as us who are teachers as well as those professlist of childhood field.
ReplyDeleteWe chose two of the same quotes, I guess you can say that we both have a built in passion to make a contribution and to strip ourselves from our own ego....
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ReplyDeleteYou choose some of my favorite ones. We must work on the injustices of the world by teaching the world. To work in the field of child care we must have a passion for the work. Maria Montessori we must prepare ourselves for the work.