This week for my graduate school course, we are to share comments and words from other professionals about their passions or motivation - or something that we think is meaningful. I am going to share some excerpts from the people that I have researched this week - Stanley Greenspan and Elena Bodrova. I will also share some quotes from an inspirational movie that we had to watch two weeks ago.
Great Quotes from Stanley Greenspan
"“Regardless of the history of IQ tests in the family, if I see nurturing, warm, interactive people who read emotional signals well and interact well, usually I see happy, competent and bright children”
"Children learn best when they can take initiative and use some of their own ideas. Structured activities, while OK for part of the time, don't provide the opportunity for initiative, creative thinking or even high levels of abstract reasoning."
Inspirational Quotes from Elena Bodrova
"Preschool children make the transition from being “slaves to the environment” to becoming “masters of their own behavior.”
"Play that has a potential for fostering many areas of young children’s development, including social and cognitive development."
Quotes from "A Passion for Early Childhood" Movie from Walden University
Louise Derman- Sparks
"Adults find their voice by teaching."
Renatta M. Cooper
It is not all about you, it is about the children and their transitions into life."
Raymond Hernandez
"[It is rewarding] to have an opportunity to give opportunities [to children]."
"Children learn best when they can take initiative and use some of their own ideas. Structured activities, while OK for part of the time, don't provide the opportunity for initiative, creative thinking or even high levels of abstract reasoning."
ReplyDeleteThese quotes are so beautiful. I just want to put them on wall and read them over and over. Sooooo beautiful
Any child from a warm nurturing environment always responds better in school. So its not all about the family IQ.
ReplyDeleteChildren who are given the opportunity to use their creativity in learning can better imagine their world into what they want it shaped into. The quotes you listed have connection to each other with this as the main objective or lesson. The child's creativity and watching the learning process in a child is reward in itself.
ReplyDeleteI think, it is very important that children must be given the opportunity and confidence to take risks, challenges, and see things in a new way. Children develop creativity not when you tell them, but when you show them
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