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.

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.

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

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

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

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

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