Amnat Ruenroeng Quotes

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.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

I didn’t have much school. Three years.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

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.

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.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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.

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.

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

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.

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.

We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.