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
We overestimate children academically and underestimate them intellectually.
Lilian Katz
Let's keep up the good work for the sake of the children. The best way to influence others is to do the best we can! It may very well be that what we do speaks more loudly than what we say.
Lilian Katz
Never underestimate the power of ideas- bad ones as well as good ones!
Lilian Katz
Access to many different playmates promotes young children to develop an interest in their peers and affords them many opportunities to develop play skills that are more advanced, more complex, and more coordinated with those of their peers.
Virginia Buysse
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
It's not all about you, its about the child.
Renatta Cooper (video segment "Passion, Motivation, and Wisdom")
Intrinsic motivation for work benefits others.
Raymond Hernandez (video segment "Passion, Motivation, and Wisdom")
Hi Lucinda,
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I read “we overestimate children academically and underestimate them intellectually”, from Lilian Katz, Ph. D. came to my mind an experience I had yesterday. I have a student whose mom is very worried about his mispronunciation, which is not considered a problem at his age; yesterday when she saw a craft he did over the week, she said that I had helped him because he couldn’t do that on his own. After telling her he has done it, said she was amazed, and about. I think, we as adults, sometimes underestimate children because they don’t solve their problems the same way as we do it, and we limit their capacities.
Hi Caty,
DeleteI agree with you that we should give children more credit. We should expand their experience and raise our expectations for them. I think that children do what is expected of them, so if you expect them to do very little they will do very little.
It's not all about you, its about the child.
ReplyDeleteRenatta Cooper (video segment "Passion, Motivation, and Wisdom") - I loved this quote as well! What a short but powerful quote. I know often it is easy to put what I want first but as soon as I start to do what I want I have a reality check and remember it is all about the children.