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1970, p1
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Who's Minding the
Children?
The History and Politics of Day Care in
America
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973, page 56 |
...the practice of many overworked day nursery
staffs of propping a bottle on a pillow rather than feeding their charges by
hand also impaired, Dr. Hedger believed, the emotional development of the
infant.
"It takes mother-love, mother arms, mother breast and considerable common
sense to grow a human properly for the first nine months, and no (day-care)
institution, no matter how scientific, how philanthropic, can replace these
things."
-- Dr. Carolyn Hedger, 1912
Category = History, Quality |
Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
pages 96-97 |
...indoor space...is often inadequate and poorly
planned for the needs of young children.
In my observation of day care centers, probably the most blatant
offenders in this regard are churches (synagogues, mosques),
whose generous inclination to provide space often results in hasty,
temporary, and part-time adaptation of a church meeting hall or auditorium.
(The teachers) frequently justified them with passing references to "open
classrooms", "unstructured space," and "free schools."
These teachers were using the rumor of new learning theories to rationalize
the poor use and planning of space.
Category = Quality |
Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
page 130 |
...there are many others (for-profit daycares)
whose sales promotions and promises of high profits suggest nothing so much
as a mentality made to sell quick-food franchises.
This image is not helped by recent tendencies of builders and developers to
use the lure of a day care center as one means of selling or renting houses
and apartments to young couples.
...day care centers have become..."one of the most effective merchandising
tools since the recreation center with its swimming pool, club-house or
what-have-you..."
Put in the crudest terms: who would want their landlord to raise their
children?
Category = Economics, Quality |
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Quotes from
books about daycare - 1970,
p1 |
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Last updated:
02/27/2008
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