“The most important thing is to enjoy children, to love them, be fair and just with them. If you do that, they’re pretty likely to come out all right.”
Abigail Eliot, 1984
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
Maria Montessori
“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.”
Maria Montessori
“Every day I go to work I look forward to it because I know the services that I am providing to children is to their benefit.”
Raymond Hernandez MS Ed
Executive Director
School of Early Childhood Education
University of Southern California
“I absolutely fell in love with three and four-year-olds. It was like the most joyful experience where I felt everything in me was being called upon to teach.”
Louise Dermin-Sparks
Professor Emeritus
Pacific Oaks College, CA
Louise Dermin-Sparks
Professor Emeritus
Pacific Oaks College, CA
Hi Maureen,
ReplyDeleteOf all of the quotes you listed my favorite is that of Raymond Hernandez. I feel the same way he has mentioned everyday I go into work. I feel as though I am serving a purpose and what I do is meaningful. So often its easy to go through the motions at a job, but working with children keeps you alive, on your toes and realizing that you are helping to develop those at are our future.
I absolutely love the quote from Raymond Hernandez. The biggest joy in teaching is knowing that you are being beneficial to a child.
ReplyDeleteI loved the quote from Abigail Eliot and plan to read more about her.
ReplyDeleteHi Maureen, I have put the Earlychildhood website in my favorites as I find it very informative - thank you for sharing.
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