Quotes

I love me a good quote – Sandy Pan (Uni buddy)

On Reflection:

We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience – John Dewey.

On Play:

You can’t never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would every happen to him – Dory (Finding Nemo)
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about – Jean Piaget
Play is the highest form of research – Albert Einstein
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself – Paulo Coelho
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves – Roald Dahl
In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behaviour. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself – Lev Vygotsky
Children learn as they play. most importantly, in play children learn how to learn – Fred Donaldson
For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world – L.R. Knost
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning – Mr. Rogers.
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning – Mr. Rogers
We don’t stop playing because grow old; we grow old because we stop playing – George Bernard Shaw
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul – Friedrich Froebel

On Emotional Regulation:

Children need our compassion the most, when they appear to deserve it the least – Louise Porter
When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not to join their chaos – L.R. Knost

On Cognitive Development:

In reference to right answers – Knowing is a process, not a product – Jerome Bruner
We only think when we are confronted with problems – John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something that he could have discovered himself (sic), that child is prevented from inventing it himself and consequently from understanding it completely – Jean Piaget
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go – Dr. Seuss
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million – Walt Streightiff
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his eyes but also through his speech – Lev Vygotsky
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialised abilities for thinking about a variety of things – Lev Vygotsky
If you have told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the slow learner – Walter Barbie

On Relationships:

Children learn from people they like – Rita Pearson
They may forget what you said, but they will not forget how you made them feel – Carl Buechner
Children observe the people around them and gather information about how to act – Albert Bandura (Behaviourist Theory)
Our task is to help children communicate with the world using all their potential, strengths and languages, and to overcome any obstacles presented by our culture – Loris Malaguzzi
We are imperfect humans growing imperfect humans in an imperfect world, and that’s perfectly okay – L.R. Knost
Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning and how to learn – Loris Malaguzzi
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind – Dr. Seuss
Children fall in love with books because of the memories created when they snuggle up and read with someone they love – Raising Readers

On Inclusion:

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn – Ignacio Estrada
There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes – Pablo Picasso
It doesn’t matter how slowly a child learns, as long as we are encouraging them not to stop – Robert J. Meehan

On Documentation:

Documentation is not pretty pictures of engaged children. Rather, it captures the thinking process: What motivated students to begin, continue, change direction? what were the breakthroughs, the pivotal remarks or actions? How did they solve the problem? The goal is to enable whoever reads a panel to understand what the child attempted and how they went about it, to see stimulus, process, and outcome – A. Lewin – Benham

On Leadership:

The best teachers are those who tell you where to look but don’t tell you what to see – Anonymous
Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves – Paul Solarz
Good leaders don’t create followers, they create more good leaders –
Leadership is not wielding authority; it is empowering people – Becky Brodin
The most important rule of educational leadership is to always remember that people, not policies or programs, are what drive highly effective schools – P.J Caposey
Children are the priority. Change is the reality. Collaboration is the strategy – Judith Billings
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better – Anonymous
Listening is what distinguishes leaders who care about the people with whom they work from leaders who only care about getting the job done – Thomas R. Hoerr
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way – Anonymous
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader – John Quincy Adams
Great leaders inspire greatness in others – Anonymous
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence – Anonymous

On Kindness:

Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness always – Rod Williams
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see – Mark Twain

Unsorted:

Children are not things to be moulded, but people to be unfolded – Jess Lair
Children need the freedom to appreciate the infinite resources of their hands, their eyes and their ears, the resources of forms, materials, sounds and colours – Loris Malaguzzi