Our Philosophy at the Rainbow Academy Child Care Center Carol Stream Illinois

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Every page in this brochure recites and reinforces our philosophy of what Early Childhood Education should be. However, we feel the following quotations certainly summarize our philosophy of what being a child means. They express what we need to give to our children to make their childhood a world of rich and positive experiences that will forever fuel the person they are to become.

CHILDHOOD FOR CHILDREN

“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder, as if creation rose and bathed in light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

When the world seems familiar; when we have gotten used to existence; one has become an adult."

Eugene Ionesco

Children need an environment rich in experience.

Children need a childhood rich in play.

Children need a childhood rich in teaching.

Children need a childhood rich with people.

Children need a childhood where they are significant.

Children need a childhood with places to call their own.

Jim Greenman (1988, p. 31-34)