Food For Thought---Preschool and Life



Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing it is stupid.
                                                                      Albert Einstein
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting laundry.

                                                  E.B. White

Eighty-five percent of a person's intellect, personality and social skills are developed by age 5.
Ninety-five percent of public investment in education occurs after age 5, when the most critical learning years have passed.

                                                                           Dr. Dale Purves
                                                                  Neuroscientist
                                                                           Duke University

Through our years of research, we have come to the conclusion that play is to early childhood what gas is to a car.  It is the very fuel of every intellectual activity our children engage in.

                                                                         Pasek and Golinkoff
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.

                                                                               Jacqueline Kennedy
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.                              
                                                                                    Plato

That's if for now.
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