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.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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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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“The child, unhampered, does not waste time.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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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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“Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“A school’s job [is] to begin education.”
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“The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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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.”
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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