#children

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#dreams #future #hope #dreams

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#children #dreams #dreams

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

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #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. ↗

— 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