A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

- Caroline Pratt

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

- Caroline Pratt

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

- Caroline Pratt

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 …

- Caroline Pratt

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

- Caroline Pratt

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 an…

- Caroline Pratt

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

- Caroline Pratt

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

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

- Caroline Pratt