- Fifty percent of a person's ability to learn is developed in the first four years of life.

- Another 30 percent is developed by the eighth birthday.

- Those vital years lay down the pathways on which all future learning is based.

- After age ten, the branches that haven't made connections die off.

- Youngsters are their own best educators, parents their best first teachers.

- Youngsters learn best by what they experience with all their senses, so stimulate these senses.

- Our homes, beaches, forests, play grounds, zoos, museums and adventure areas are the world's best schools.

- Simple physical routines can help infants explode into learning.

- Infants grow in a patterned way, so learn to build on that growth pattern.

- Learning anything, including reading, writing and math, can and should be fun.