Barbara Bush Quotes

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

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

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

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.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

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

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

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

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.