30 In Conclusion

With Gratitude

Thank you for choosing Child Development as your major at Palomar College. We will be providing you with a top-rate education and degree in child development to help prepare you for transfer or for employment in early childhood education. Our goal is your success, but we can’t want you to succeed more than you do! We are here to help you as you move through your program in Child Development. If you have any questions or need assistance or advising, please contact any of the full-time faculty.

Your instructors are here to help you make the most of your classes and to answer questions specific to your course. You have chosen a fulfilling and important field! Thank you for caring about children and about your own education!

• “Wisdom begins with wonder.” -Socrates
• “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!” –Andy McIntyre
• “Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.” –Chinese proverb
• “For children, play is as natural as breathing, and as necessary.” –Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela
• “Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” –Maria Montessori
• “What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.” –John Dewey
• “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” –Henry Ford
• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” –Fredrick Douglass
• “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
• “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” –Mahatma Gandhi
• “Try not to have a good time- this is supposed to be educational.” –Charles Schultz