Child Quotes by Caroline Pratt

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way…

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

“This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.”

— Caroline Pratt

“The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he…

— Caroline Pratt

“In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to…

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

— Caroline Pratt

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their…

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

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

— Caroline Pratt

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

— Caroline Pratt

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

— Caroline Pratt