Wonderful contributors

"If formal instruction is introduced too early, too intensely and too abstractly, the children may indeed learn the instructed knowledge and skills, but they may do so at the expense of the disposition to use them."

                                                                                      Lilian Katz



     

"Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasis should be place on appreciation—reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts."
                                                                          

                                                              Lilian Katz







 "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

                                                        Marian Wright Edelman


 "If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans."

                                                            Marian Wright Edelman        


Passion, Motivation, and Comittment
         
"It's not all about you, you've got to take your ego out of it, and think about what's best for the child."

                                                         Renatta M. Cooper