Words of wisdom from inspirational individuals

  
 Dr. Lilian Katz 

Remember that adults know more about almost everything than a small child does—except what it feels like to be that child, and how the world makes sense to him or her. Those things are the children’s expertise from which a teacher must learn—to be able to reach and teach them.  

 – Dr. Lilian Katz (Last Class Notes)

Cultivate the habit of speaking to children as people—people with minds—usually lively ones. Appeal to their good sense. It is not necessary to be sweet, silly, or sentimental at one extreme or somber, grim, or harsh at the other. Let us be genuine, direct, honest, serious, and warm with them and about them—and sometimes humorous too.

– Dr. Lilian Katz (Last Class Notes)

I really believe that each of us must come to care about everyone else’s children. We must come to see that the well-being of our own individual children is intimately linked to the well-being of all other people’s children. After all, when one of our own children needs life-saving surgery, someone else’s child will perform it; when one of our own children is threatened or harmed by violence on the streets, someone else’s child will commit it. The good life for our own children can only be secured if it is also secured for all other people’s children. But to worry about all other people’s children is not just a practical or strategic matter; it is a moral and ethical one: to strive for the well-being of all other people’s children is also right.

                        – Dr. Lilian Katz (Last Class Notes)

 

Dr. Edward Zigler 

I have long believed that the development of a child does not begin the day he is born - or at age three - but much earlier, during the formative years of his parents.

 -Edward Zigler, Ph.D.

  

From the son of two immigrants growing up in poverty, I’m a Sterling Professor at Yale and fairly well known. That help I got as a child in those important years was critical. And the new brain research tells us that what you experience in those early years is the foundation for brain development in later years.

-Dr. Edward Zigler, Ph.D.