Inspirational Quotes

AN EXCERPT FROM DR. SYLVIA CHARD'S WRITING:- WHY IS PROJECT LEARNING IMPORTANT?

One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life. In real life, we don't spend several hours at a time listening to authorities who know more than we do and who tell us exactly what to do and how to do it. We need to be able to ask questions of a person we're learning from. We need to be able to link what the person is telling us with what we already know. And we need to be able to bring what we already know and experience we've had that are relevant to the topic to the front of our minds and say something about them.

REFERENCE: http://www.edutopia.org/sylvia-chard-project-learning

One of the quotes from Dr. Chard that I enjoy.

“Students not only need to know how to use a skill but also when to use it. They need to learn to recognize for themselves the context in which the skill might be useful and the purposes it can most appropriately serve.”

-Sylvia Chard

Dr. Sylvia Chard hails from the public early childhood education field.

AN EXCERPT FOR DR. EDWARD ZIGLER:-A VISION FOR UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

Public support for preschool is not limited to services for poor children. Today there is widespread enthusiasm for universal access to high-quality early education for all preschoolers. For example, a national poll conducted by the National Institute for Early Education Research in 2001 revealed that nearly 90 percent of people who responded agreed there should be state-funded, universally accessible preschool (Barnett, Robin, Hustedt, & Schulman, 2003). In public opinion polling of voters and leaders from the business, organized labor, government, religious, media, education, and child care communities in Massachusetts, Blood (2000) reported that 100 percent of those asked believe that education should begin before kindergarten. It would be difficult to find any other social policy poll that resulted in a perfect score.

REFERECES: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vision-for-universal-preschool-education-edward-zigler/1100948038?ean=9780521612999&itm=1&usri=9780521612999

One of the of quotes from Dr. Zigler that I enjoy.

“They are our partners in the learning enterprise, and we have a special responsibility to use this knowledge-not to fill up journals, but to make the lives of these children better.”

-Edward Zigler

Doctor Zigler hails from the Head Start program.

QUOTE FOR THE MULTIMEDIA SEGMENT FROM WEEK 2

“I always wanted to be a teacher. . . I have a built in passion to make a real contribution in the world  I wanted to fix all the injustices that existed in the world and I wanted to do this as a teacher.”

Louise Derman-Sparks