Irwin Redlener Quotes

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

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

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.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

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.

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.

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.

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

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

I was a kindergarten dropout.

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.

It's an advantage to have two parents, but to have one parent to stay closely connected and at home during those early years of education can be very very important.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!