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

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.

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.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

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

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.