History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child’s experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
A misbehaving child is a discouraged child.
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.
When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.