Quotes from Caroline Pratt

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.