30 early childhood education phrases to reflect on the future of children

The proof of the success of our educational action is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

Early childhood education is love and dedication. It means respecting the time of each student to ensure their insertion in the world of knowledge.

Heloísa Paiva

To educate is to tell stories. Telling stories is transforming life into the most serious game in society.

Augusto Cury

Unleash the child’s potential and you will transform the world.

Maria Montessori

The objective of education, in the student, is to develop the capacity for conscience and responsibility.

Maria Montessori

When a child plays, plays and pretends, he is creating another world. Richer, more beautiful and much more full of possibilities and inventions than the world where he actually lives.

Marilena Chaui

To educate is to grow and to grow is to live. Education is, therefore, life in the most authentic sense of the word.

Children learn by playing, so it is necessary to create environments that stimulate their creativity.

Heloisa Paiva

Educators, before being specialists in the tools of knowledge, should be specialists in love.

Rubem Alves

Education shapes souls and recreates hearts. It is the lever of social change.

Paulo Freire

To be effective, a pedagogical activity must consist of helping the child to advance on the path of independence.

Maria Montessori

Education, whatever it may be, is always a theory of knowledge put into practice.

Paulo Freire

Early childhood education gives wings for the child to be what he wants to be.

Heloisa Paiva

Raising a child is easy, just satisfy their wants. Educating is more work.

Içami Tiba

It is from dreams that intelligence is born. It is necessary to listen to children for their intelligence to blossom.

Rubem Alves

Never help a child with a task he feels he can do alone.

Maria Montessori

If a child cannot learn the way he is taught, it is better to teach him the way he can learn.

Early childhood education is synonymous with patience. It is necessary to respect the time of each child to learn what he is most interested in.

Heloisa Paiva

Educating takes work, but it is work that bears good fruit.

Içami Tiba

The teacher’s task is to prepare motivations for cultural activities in a previously organized environment, and then to refrain from interfering.

Maria Montessori

There are schools that are cages and there are schools that are wings. Schools that are cages exist for birds to unlearn the art of flight.

Rubem Alves

To educate is to travel in the world of the other, without ever penetrating it. It’s using what we’ve been through to transform into who we are.

Augusto Cury

True education is that which meets the child in order to achieve his or her liberation.

Maria Montessori

The first premise for a child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Maria Montessori

Teaching is not transferring knowledge, but creating possibilities for its own production or construction.

Paulo Freire

educate is to sow wisely and patiently spoon.

Augusto Cury

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is being able to say: the children are working now as if I didn’t exist.

Maria Montessori

It is not enough to learn to read and write, it is necessary to teach children to be good citizens for the world.

Heloisa Paiva

To educate oneself is to imbue with meaning every moment of life, every daily act.

Paulo Freire

I didn’t invent a method of education, I simply gave some children a chance to live.

Maria Montessori