To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communi…

- Friedrich Frobel

If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they mu…

- Friedrich Frobel

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

- Friedrich Frobel

The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought by exerting his power…

- Friedrich Frobel

Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

- Friedrich Frobel

Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspectio…

- Friedrich Frobel

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

- Friedrich Frobel