“In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.”

“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 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.”

“The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.”

“Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.”

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

“A school’s job [is] to begin education.”