John Waters

I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.

Director

Viola Davis

The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.

American Actress

Miranda Cosgrove

I don't have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I'm protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school - I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them.

Shane Koyczan

Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.

Canadian Writer

Mitchell Zuckoff

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

American Educator

Heather Morris

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!

London Breed

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

American Politician

Rose Namajunas

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

American Athlete

Jared Isaacman

I did tell my kindergarten teacher I would go to space someday, and she said she'd be watching.

American Businessman

Jill Lepore

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

American Historian

Kindergarten marks the beginning of formal education for children.

Education Start

Kindergarten teaches basic skills like alphabet, numbers, and social interaction.

Curriculum Basics

It's a school level meant for a specific age group, usually five to six-year-olds.

Age Specific

Kindergarten helps children develop social and emotional skills from an early age.

Early Development

Kindergarten is less formal and focuses on play-based learning.

Pre-Academic Stage

It provides childcare in a structured setting, preparing children for school life.

Care Beyond Home

 There are studies that teenagers who participate in racially integrated classes and activities reduce their racial bias. And when little kids go to racially integrated kindergartens and elementary schools -- they develop less bias to begin with. But the fact is in so many ways and in so many places around our world,

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 supermarket in the world packed for the lantern fish which is their primary prey here but my favorite part is the crash when the chicks of five weeks old their parents leave them in a kindergarten food becomes scarce during the winter so both of the parents have to go out into the open ocean to hunt depending on

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 Now, I make my living talking to Nobel Prize winners, truck drivers, billionaires, kindergarten teachers, heads of state, plumbers. I talk to people that I like. I talk to people that I don't like. I talk to some people that I disagree with deeply on a personal level.

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 or to have a good start in life I was privileged to have that kind of good start I was not a great student I was a public school kid in New York City and I didn't do well at all I have my entire New York City Board of Education transcript from kindergarten through

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 music they played on that station moved me so much I sang along people liked it when I sang along they said you're good and that felt good so I got better so much better in fact that by the time I was five years old and in kindergarten they moved

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 We all have milestones in life that we remember so vividly. The first one for me was when I was entering kindergarten. My big brother was in school, and by golly, it was my time. And I went trottin' down that hallway.

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 because of the permafrost you can't really build anything on the ground here so what you'll see is that all the houses are on stilts longer bein is home to three kindergartens and the world's northernmost school

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 This linearity thing is a problem. When I arrived in L.A. about nine years ago, I came across a policy statement -- very well-intentioned -- which said, "College begins in kindergarten." No, it doesn't.

Bring on the learning...

 If you are a parent, you know that kids love to keep making circles. This is how the rooftop looks. And why did we design this? The principal of this kindergarten said,

The best kindergarten...

 When I arrived in L.A. about nine years ago, I came across a policy statement -- very well-intentioned -- which said, "College begins in kindergarten." No, it doesn't.