The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

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.

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

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

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 more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.