Nobel Laureates on Early Child Development
Often people are hugely challenged in the very early years of life, leaving a mark for the rest of their lives on their cognitive development and their ability to deal with it the intellectual challenges they face. Early child development is an exciting subject, in which lots of very original work is going on in China.
——Amartya Sen
Professor of Harvard University
Speech on the Fourth International Conference on Poverty Reduction
The only real prosperity is share prosperity. The only real successful societies are those where there is social justice. An agenda for social justice has to begin with children and has to begin with an agenda that says every child no matter who his parents are has to have access to adequate nutrition, adequate healthcare, and adequate education.
——Joseph Stiglitz
Professor of Columbia University
Speech on the Fourth International Conference on Poverty Reduction
You will find high quality early childhood programs have higher rates of return. They promote skills, they create a base of opportunity, so they expand social mobility, which is not easily quantified, but they certainly increase the earnings, the capacity, and productivity of the entire economy.
——James Heckman
Professor of University of Chicago
Speech on the Fourth International Conference on Poverty Reduction
