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.

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

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.

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