Inspirational Education Quotes

Quotes from my two Contributors:

Belief that every child should be educated to the greatest extent possible -----every child can improve to some degree.

- Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

- Dr. Maria Montessori

“A great social mission that will ensure the child justice, harmony and love remains to be accomplished.  And this great task must be the work of education, for this is the only way to build a new world and bring peace.”                                                                                                                                                                                   

                                                               - Dr. Maria Montessori

Personal Childhood Web

The five people who influenced me were:

My God, The Father

He taught me how to have patience and to trust and
believe in him.  I was born premature and I am told that
I was not supposed to have made it because I had a very underdeveloped immune system. But there is one who says different.  He gave me the hope for a future that others said I would not have.  Strong faith.

My Parents, Clinton Moore, Jr. and Doshie Moore
They taught me how to be self-reliant.  They taught me how to be a hard-worker and how to be committed to something purposeful.





My Aunt, Annie Ruth Dennard
She taught me about charity.  She was always by my side when I was sick, hurt, or just needed a shoulder to cry on.  She taught me how to care for others.





My Coach, Robert Aaron
He taught me about hard work and determination and how to follow my dreams.  He taught me life lessons.  He encouraged me to try new things like driving a car, being a runner, track (with Asthma) and working as a team(basketball trainer).  He was like a big brother.      

                                                             
My Instructor (College), Dr. DorothyContehShe taught me how to be a professional, respectable, loving and well-rounded young lady.  She was the first women to really teach me how to present myself in a good way.  She was more than just an Advisor/Instructor to me she became more of a mother figure that I was not used to having.  My mother was a hard worker but she was not very educated.  Dr. Conteh encouraged me and showed me how to reach for the stars.




I know and understand that the assignment says to talk about people who influenced my life as a child but much of my childhood was spent in an oxygen tent which means that I did not have much contact with the outside world until I was about eight years old and then my time in the public school system was limited because of the Asthma and immune system problems.  I don't remember much of my early childhood teachers because I was mostly homebound with a homeschool teacher.

The ways in which they continue to impact my present life is in that I still trust and believe in the Lord (Strong faith), I am a hard worker and want to make a difference in the world by having a purposeful career, I am a caring and loving individual who is always trying to make things better for everyone as a whole (humanitarian), I am still trying to follow my dreams and be the best person that I can be in an effort to one day be able to help others (continuing my education) and last I continue to improve myself so that I can be an inspiration to my son and show him how to be a strong, dedicated, educated professional person.

My Favorite Children's Book

    

The children's book I chose was The Little Engine That Could.  This book has been a favorite of mine every since I began teaching back in 1994.  Every year, each child in our Pre-K classrooms were given a copy of this book as a Christmas gift donated by a public official.  I love this book because it teaches the children the value of hard work.  In this book a little blue engine tries to help a larger engine that breaks down in the courtyard.  Even though this engine is very small she agrees to try and pull the cars over the mountain so the little boys and girls will have a good Christmas.  She encourages herself by repeating and chanting "I think I can, I think I  can... to overcome a seemingly impossible task.  After much effort, the little engine makes it over the mountain and delivers the toys to all the little boys and girls.  In the end,  she tells herself "I thought I could, I thought I could"... giving herself confirmation of her abilities.  Children know their own capabilities without us even giving them motivation.

Child's Drawing that I liked

 
 
I chose this drawing because the little boy who was drawing it had such an interesting time creating it.  While at work observing my Practicum students performing their laboratories, I watched and admired this child as he drew pictures of his family.  The center's focus for this month is on Families and the children were asked to draw members of their family. This observation took place in a Pre-K classroom.  The child was excited at the beginning about his drawing and then after he kept adding members of his family he stated "I have too many people in my family and they can't all fit on this paper."  The teacher said to him "that's ok, you don't have to add everyone."  Then the child said "now I see why my mom don't want all them people in her house, they are too many people." Children are so funny and observant.