Dave McClure Quotes

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child's brain at the elementary levels.

...The wisest of all ages have acknowledged that the most important period in human education is in childhood.. - - This most important part of education is left entirely in the hands of the mother. She prepares the soil for future culture.... But the mother cannot give what she does not possess; weakness cannot impart strength.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.

The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. It's really not rocket science: Put kids on the right path at an early age - and keep them there.

Our goal with Khan Academy Kids is to inspire a life-long love of learning.