Caroline Pratt Quotes

In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

A school's job [is] to begin education.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Childhood's work is learning, and it is in his play ... that the child works at his job.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.