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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Oct 2, 2025
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
I got an early education from television.
I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.
I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.
There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.