Caroline Pratt famous quotes

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.
-- Caroline Pratt

#Children #Hands #Play

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

#Long #World #Lifetime

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.
-- Caroline Pratt

#Children #Taken #Needs

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.
-- Caroline Pratt

#Children #Waste #Doe

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

#Children #Needs #Wells

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

#Jobs #Children #Play

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

#Progress #Firsts #Steps

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

#Retrospect #Flaunting #Banner

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

#Jobs #School

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

#Children #Important #Phases

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.
-- Caroline Pratt

#Growing Up #Children #Growth