Caroline Pratt Quotes
- The child, unhampered, does not waste time.
- The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.
- 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.
- A school’s job [is] to begin education.
- It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
- 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.
- A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
- 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…
- 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…