"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."

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Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Caroline Pratt

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“You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.”
“I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.”
“Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.”
“When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.”
“Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.”
“The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).”
“I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”

Source : "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation". Book by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, 2001.
“I don't like people talking bad about me, I get hurt so precisely I don't end up saying that for others.”

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