Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes

The children were singing beer commercials. If they could learn from beer commercials why can't they learn 1,2, 3 and more.

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.

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.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

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.

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

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

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.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

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.

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.

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

Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

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.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

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

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.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

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

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