This book contains handpicked quotes to remind parents and teachers of the importance of their role in developing children who are the world’s real diamonds.

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Quotes About Child Development
Dr. Jyoti Hegde

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3. A hundred years from now, it will not matter what
kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how
much money I had in the bank...but the world may be
a better place because I made a difference in the life of
a child.
Forest Witcraft

4. If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame
the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not
having nourished the seed properly.
Buddhist proverb

5. At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a
child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Jane D. Hull

6. Parents are the ultimate role models for children.
Every word, movement and action has an effect.
Bob Keeshan

7. By loving them for more than their abilities we show
our children that they are much more than the sum of
their accomplishments.
Eileen Kennedy-Moore

8. The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most
fun to do – such as singing, playing games, reading,
storytelling, and just talking and listening – are also
the best for child development.
Jerome Singer

9. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,
he needs the companionship of at least one adult who
can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the
excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carlson

10. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of
a fire.
William Butler Yeats

11. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how
to think, than what to think - rather to improve our
minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to
load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie

12. Every child has a different learning style and pace.
Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but
also capable of succeeding.
Robert John Meehan

13. If the child is not learning the way you are teaching,
then you must teach in the way the child learns.
Rita Dunn

14. A good teacher must be able to empathize what it must
be like to struggle to learn something that may have
come so easily to them.
Robert John Meehan

15. It shouldn't matter how slowly a child learns as long as
we are encouraging them not to stop.
Robert John Meehan

16. Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and
believe that each one has something special that can be
built upon.
Ann Lieberman

17. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can
succeed.
Maria Montessori

18. The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able
to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not
exist.'
Maria Montessori

19. A student's progress should be measured in terms of
the questions they are asking, not merely by the
answers that they are reciting.
Robert John Meehan

20. If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave
me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top
grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about
them, and then told me what they learned from them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

21. The habits we form from childhood make no small
difference, but rather they make all the difference.
Aristotle

22. Since the jobs that our preschoolers will do probably
don’t exist yet, our priority is to teach them the skills to
adapt and inquire and question and cooperate… life
skills.
Caroline Bellouse

23. Diamond Model for the holistic development of Children
The Diamond Model is a framework for the holistic development of Children. It has been
designed by Corporate Trainers, Dr. Jyoti Hegde and Amey Hegde using inputs from the 10 core
life skills identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Daniel Goleman's model of
Emotional Intelligence and the competencies identified by CASEL, the leading organization in
the US for the teaching of social and emotional skills. It also includes values, good habits, civic
sense and care for the environment.
To know more visit: http://jyotihegde.in/blog/polishing-real-diamonds

24. About This Book:
This book contains handpicked quotes to remind parents and teachers of the importance
of their role in developing children who are the world’s real diamonds.
About The Author:
Dr. Jyoti Hegde is a Corporate trainer and a life skills trainer for kids based in Goa, India.
Her passion is to conduct sessions for kids on the values, habits, and life skills for health,
happiness and success. To know more visit: http://jyotihegde.in/
POLISHING REAL DIAMONDS: QUOTES ABOUT CHILD DEVELOPMENT