#children

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

#education #progressive-education #education

Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children make as they sleep, the sounds our animals make as they step carefully through our dreams and out the other side to polished floor and cold window. Sometimes I wait so long I become unsure if I am asleep, or awake, or dead. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#awake #children #cold-window #dead #dreams

What are men? Children who doubt. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#doubt #men

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. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #business

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. ↗

— Mimsy Sadofsky

#democracy #education #politics #education

I played with children so that I could learn from them. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#education

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ↗

— Elizabeth Foss

#education #homeschooling #education

The child, unhampered, does not waste time. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #school #education

Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding. ↗

— Loris Malaguzzi

#creativity #education #education

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! ↗

— W. O. Wainwright

#educational #humane #insightful #inspirational #reaffirming