EARLY CHILDHOOD QUOTES:

“A child’s early experience has a decisive and lasting impact on how they develop, their ability to learn, and their capacity to regulate their own emotions.”
-- Rima Shore, in “Rethinking the Brain”

“Every dollar spent on preschool produces a 12 percent real rate of return – a number that, in the private sector, would start a venture capital stampede.”
-- Art Rolnick, senior vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

“The best economic development strategy is investment in early childhood.”
-- Art Rolnick, senior vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

“Research has shown that investment in early childhood development programs brings a real (that is, inflation adjusted) public return of 12 percent and a real total return, public and private, of 16 percent. We are unaware of any other economic development effort that has such a public return, and yet early childhood is rarely viewed in economic development terms.”
--Art Rolnick, senior vice president, and Bob Grunewald, regional economic analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, (2003), “Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return,” Fedgazette, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 23, 2003.

“If you look critically at the failure in our educational system, you must conclude that the child’s failure and the schools’ failure are largely determined before the child enters the educational system at age 6.”
-- Irving Harris, former chief executive officer, Procter & Gamble