Preschool Quotes

“...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...”
― Charlotte Mason

“This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that first or second graders are expected to know. Like the common school movement, uniform indicators of quality, centralized regulation, more highly credientialed teachers are to ensure that instruction--rather than creating engaging activities for children to explore--will be delivered in more uniform ways. And the state signals to parents that this is now the appropriate way to raise one's three- or four-year-old. Modern child rearing is equated with systems building in the eyes of universal pre-kindergarten advocates--and parents hear this discourse through upbeat articles in daily newspapers, public service annoucement, and from school authorities.”
― Bruce Fuller, Standardized Childhood: The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education

“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?”
― Sherley Mondesir-Prescott, If Your Shoes Could Speak

“When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter!”
― Brigette Foresman

“It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything!”
― Tamar Bobokhidze, Nora's First Day at School

“What if upon entering the classroom, children find teachers listening attentively for their questions and stories, demonstrating a willingness to engage them in "playing out" their ideas using classroom materials while their propensity to ask questions is at its peak? What if well-educated teachers are guiding children to observe, discuss, imagine, and debate possibilities in the company of their equally eager peers? Our youngest children could,be in such conservatories of educational excellence in our public stools, preparing for their future in school and beyond.”
― Gillian Dowley McNamee, The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

“We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!”
― Tamar Bobokhidze, Nora's First Day at School

“This not how you hide, Corin!”
― Tamar Bobokhidze, Nora's First Day at School

“I AM
A TEACHER.
We ARE teachers.
We’re not daycare workers.
We’re not taking care of days.
We’re taking care of children.
We will define ourselves.”
― Jill Telford

“The business world tells us to focus on what we're best at and delegate or outsource the rest. However, this doesn't work with all your roles, or in every situation you may find yourself in. For example, when applied to parenting, nobody can replace YOU as the parent, not even your spouse. You must act within that role, even if you aren't very good at it, because nobody else can truly take your place.”
― Josh Steimle

“The journey through the preschool years helps children to move from dependence to interdependence to independence.”
― Deepa Bhushan

“My nephew is still at preschool, i am a proud aunty once found him took care of his pets. He cleaned up the mini aquarium for his fish, fed the turtle, and played with his hamsters.”
― Ratih Kartikasari

“The last few years have shown a push for early preschool attendance. So much so that these words may actually sound like heresy. But I will say them anyways: if you do not want to send your kid to preschool and prefer to keep him or her at home with a day rich in conversation and play - going to parks, making cookies, visiting the library, reading books, taking naps, mashing play-doh- I do not believe you are doing your child a disservice. On the contrary, your child is doing just precisely what a little three- or four-year-old should be doing: playing.”
― Jessica Smartt, Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need

“Teachers are responsible for showing what an inclusive, caring community looks like, expressing confidence in the goal, and articulating how to make it work.”
― Gillian Dowley McNamee, The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

“Well into my teaching career, I learned that good and bad play are usually a matter of having a script that works or one that needs to be rewritten. Once you begin to depend on storytelling and story acting, you start looking at your classrooms as theater. The children are constantly imagining characters and plots and, when they have a chance, with each other, acting out little stories. You can look at the children and yourself as actors. "Well, this hasn't worked. We'd better think of a better way to pretend this story." What seems to be a chaotic scene, one we might call bad play, is simply a scene that lacks closure for one or more characters.

The teacher's role is to help the children make up a new scene. The children become used to the teachers - or even other children - saying, "This isn't working. We need to tell the story of what were doing with each other. What characters are we playing? And what needs to be played in a different way so that the play does not have to stop?" (via a Meghan Dombrick-Green interview with Vivian Paley 2001)”
― Gillian Dowley McNamee, The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

“In preschool we remain largely free from prejudice and associate with anyone who crosses our path – giving them the opportunity to impress us with their personality traits and skills before passing judgment on them in the ultimate sense: deciding whether to befriend them.”
― Joshua Krook, Us vs Them: A Case for Social Empathy

“Mindseed is one of the leading group of kindergarten schools that recognizes the fact that every child is a genius and we should celebrate them for who they are rather than pushing them for what we want them to become.”
― Mindseed