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“The having of wonderful ideas is what I consider to be the essence of intellectual development.”—Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas	Loose Parts: The Open Invitation of Play
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”—John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” —Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences.” —Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children
“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” —Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting
“If it hasn’t been in the hand and the body… it can’t be in the brain.” —Bev Bos
“Let us not become fixated on the artifact, but rather see the richness in the journey of its making.” Diane Kashin — Small Worlds in Early Learning: Now is the Time
“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” —Jean Piaget, To Understand Is to Invent
“To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday… The moment you have a motive for being attentive, you are no longer attentive.” — Freedom from the Known, Krishnamurti
“Let your values breathe like your parenting does. And when things feel unclear—when you’re in the thick of it—let them speak back to you. Not as rules. But as reminders of what love looks like in your home” -Rebecca

“Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”

—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

“It is not possible to be a teacher without being a learner.”

—Herbert Kohl, I Won’t Learn From You

“Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.”

—Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust

“Holistic education is based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections.”

—Ron Miller, What Are Schools For?

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

—Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk (2006)

“Imagination is what, above all, makes empathy possible.”

—Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

—Carl Rogers, Freedom to Learn

“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.”

—Herbert Read, Education Through Art

“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”

—Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education

“I’d rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.”

—A.S. Neill, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

“You can’t say you can’t play.”

—Vivian Gussin Paley, You Can’t Say You Can’t Play

“The function of education is to create human beings who are integrated and therefore intelligent.”

—Jiddu Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life