“Early childhood education at Cambridge was key to our children’s success.”
A note of gratitude from our parents and their reflection on how early years education shapes lifelong success in their children:
Looking back at our children’s journeys, it’s so clear that the foundation of who they are today started with the teachers at Cambridge preschool. As parents, expats and academics, we’ve watched the simple habits you taught our children scale into the complex interactions they flourish in today. As parents, we have no doubt that early childhood education at Cambridge opened the doors to their success.
Cambridge allowed them to explore and create a space where challenges were something to embrace. While providing a respectful multicultural setting, Cambridge taught important values such as discipline through fun activities like dance performances. Their holistic approach gave our children important tools to succeed later in life. Today, we see that same “can do” spirit when our son presents research at international science conferences or when our daughter takes on responsibilities in the medical field.
Teachers and aunties at Cambridge didn’t just see them as individuals, but as part of a community. The empathy and collaboration they learned at Cambridge formed the backbone of how they work today, whether it is collaborating across global institutions or in providing patient-centered care and mentoring their peers.
What we treasure most is the encouragement to lifelong learning as the norm which led our children to their current paths in theoretical machine learning, neuroscience, and biomedicine. Being equipped with skills of math, reading, writing and the appreciation of the arts and diverse cultures, our children entered primary school ready. Spending our own careers teaching at the PhD level, we know that technical skills can still be taught later, but important abilities, such as inner drive and a sense of belonging, need to be seeded early. We are very grateful that Cambridge Preschool helped instill these very qualities that allow our children to flourish today. As parents we have no doubt that their early childhood education at Cambridge was a key element to their success.
Parents of Leon and Sina
Cambridge Pre-school Alumni, Class of 2008 and 2010