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The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion…

— Ellen Key

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important…

— Albert Einstein

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

— Benjamin Spock

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

— Robert Fulghum

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin…

— William James

Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than…

— C. Sommerville

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes…

— Franz Cizek

“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

“What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that…

— Tzvi Freeman

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

— H. L. Mencken

“For example, in Susie’s kindergarten class, children have responsibilities, including being the teacher for certain routines.”

— Peter H. Johnston