Human rights education is loving education.

The Centre for Learning and Democracy demands universal and loving care for all children and creates human rights education curriculum, materials and programs for early care providers and human rights organizers.

We are committed to the human rights values of love, respect and dignity, and the sanctity of human life. We believe that love should be the basis of both the practice of and justification for early education and care.

Loving early education treats children as human. It is what families instinctively provide for their children. It is nurturing and selfless. Families provide for children out of love, not as a matter of economic policy or as an investment in human capital. Just as with families, loving care and human rights education may take many forms, but it is always grounded in love.

Human capital justifications for supporting early education and care should be dropped. We should instead call for public support of quality early education and care programs based solely on our shared responsibility to educate and care for children. We should be calling for loving care and human rights education for all children.

Bottom-line care treats young children as vessels of human capital who are in need of investment. Bottom-line care seeks public dollars for expanded access to and improved quality of early education programs as a way to generate more economic output in the future. We reject these notions and instead call for early care and education based - first and foremost - on love.