Elizabeth Esty Quotes

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

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 the key to the betterment of society.

My People First Education plan includes universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, because the research is very clear that if you have a dollar to spend in education, it's best spent early on with high-quality pre-K so that kids can get off to a strong start.

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.

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

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.

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.

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

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.

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.

What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.

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.

We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

Children who attend high-quality early care and education programs before kindergarten perform better on assessments of reading and math skills and socio-emotional development. However, since early care and education programs are so expensive, low-income families face significant barriers.

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

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.