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The Role of Knowledge in Leadership

by Maurice Sykes
May/June 2015
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To be a successful leader in early childhood education, you must be a seeker and a distributor of knowledge. The seeking of knowledge is driven by one key element: curiosity. Curiosity sounds simple, but the power in this one small concept knows no bounds. In curiosity we find the catalyst that has spurred the discovery and the growth of knowledge throughout all of human history. The children whose lives we seek to enrich are already in touch with this incredible learning tool. Anyone who has worked with young children knows that you cannot leave them in a room with a pile of blocks without witnessing curiosity manifesting itself. At once, the questions come to life:

• What designs can be pieced together out of these blocks?
• What structures can be made?
• How high can the blocks be stacked before they topple over?

Children's natural curiosity propels them to discover the answers to these questions. What started out as a pile of unremarkable blocks suddenly increases one hundredfold in value. Why? Because blocks on their own are just blocks. But blocks mixed with curiosity yield a far greater treasure: knowledge.


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