Quotes from two major Contributors to Early Childhood Education  

“Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers,” and “because learning begins when consciousness erupts, education must also” and “self-activity”. (“Pioneers In Our Field,” 2000).   - Friedrich’s Froebel

Second Erikson’s quotes “ Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom” ( www.goodreads.com).

-Erick Erikson

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.” (www.goodreads.com).

-Erick Erikson

Passion

“I had a built in passion that it was important to make a real contribution to the world and to fix all the injustices that existed in the world and I wanted to do that through teaching”

“Children are still trying to figure out all their different identities and they’re also trying to figure out who others are and are still bombarded with both negative and positive messages about who they are.”

-Louise Derman-Sparks

Motivation

 “When I go to these parents’ meetings and actually see parents learning how to speak to policy makers, learning how to write letters, learning how to tell their stories and share their voice that’s what keeps me motivated regardless of the challenges going on”   

- Sandy Escobido

Wisdom

 “ It’s not all about you you’ve got to take your ego out and think about this child”.

- Renatta Cooper