Quotes from sectors of early childhood education innovators

Arthur Rolnick: “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

Edward Zigler: “I have long believed that the development of a child does not begin the day he is born -or at age three - but much earlier, during the formative years of his parents.” Edward Zigler, Ph.D

--“It is import to help children as much as possible about parenting to help prevent social problems like premature child bearing, and child neglect and abuse. Now that we know more about brain development in the very young, it is critical that we teach our future parents the important role that parents can play in stimulating and nuturing their children, and in preparing them to reach their full potential in school and in later life.” Edward Zigler, Ph.D