Caroline Pratt Quotes
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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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A school’s job [is] to begin education.
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Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.
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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.
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Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.
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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.
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Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
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The child, unhampered, does not waste time.
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The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.
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It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
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A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
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