Mark Esper Quotes

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.

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

Child care is a family issue—not a government issue.

The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.

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

Child care is very important, so I want to put dollars there, and I want to make sure we get the policies right.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

There is a perception that anganwadis are merely places where food is provided to children.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.