Quotes from Early Childhood Specialists

Dr Lilian Katz

“ Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience.” Dr Lilian Katz

Rather than “delivering” education, we are most likely to help children by “providing” experiences known to be beneficial to young children. Thus when we decide to evaluate or assess a provision for young children, we might ask: What kind of experiences is each child having much of the time? Or perhaps we should ask: What does it feel like to be a child in this environment day after day after day? To use these questions as a basis for assessing the appropriateness of provision for young children requires coming to agreement on which experiences are thought to be essential to yield the kinds of short-term and long-term effects (vs. products) we want to cause.

 Dr Lilian Katz

' Literacy and numeracy skills are not ends in themselves but basic tools that can and should be applied in the quest for understanding  

 Dr Lilian Katz

Dr Ann Turnbull

"The growing expectation is that schools will deliver socially acceptable, effective and efficient interventions to ensure safe, productive environments where non-violating behavior is minimized and pro-social behavior is promoted."  Dr Ann Turnbull

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.

Edward W. Ziegle

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