Emily Oster Quotes

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

When I first saw children's television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this fabulous medium to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

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

Research shows that children in smaller families tend to do better in terms of nutritional, health and educational status compared to children in larger families.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.

When you watch a lot of movies as a kid, the stories do shape a little bit how you view the world.

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

One thing I've learned is that preschool teachers really have seen it all - and they can be a wealth of information! If you have any questions about a certain behavioral hurdle with your child or if you have a question about a certain age or phase, ask them!

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.

Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.

The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warming is for a rain shower.

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.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

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

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.