1. “Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein
2. “Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.” ― William Glasser
3. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” ― Frederick Douglass
4. “A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” ― Pablo Casals
5. “Anything you can teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children.” ― Cathy James
6. “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.” ― Alfie Kohn.
7. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” ― Jim Henson
8. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” ― Denis Waitley
9. “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” ― O. Fred Donaldson
10. “To take children seriously is to value them for who they are right now rather than adults-in-the-making.” ― Alfie Kohn
11. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” ― Ignacio Estrada
12. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” ― Dr. Seuss
13. “Education … is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning … by praise, but above all, by example.” ― John Ruskin
14. “They may forget what you said, but they will not forget how you made them feel.” ― Carl Buechner
15. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin
16. “Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” ― C.S. Lewis
17. “The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.” ― Erik H. Erikson
18. “Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.” ― Jean Piaget
19. “If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns” ~ Rita Dunn
20. “All children are artists.” ― Picasso
21. “Play is the exultation of the possible.” ― Martin Buber
22. “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” ― Fred Rogers
23. “Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.” ― Magda Gerber
24. “Every day, in a hundred small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response.” ― L.R. Knost
25. “It takes a big heart to shape little minds.” – Unknown
26. “If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.” ― Nicolette Sowder
27. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” ― Oscar Wilde
28. “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” ― Carl Jung
29. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― William Butler Yeats
30. “Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine.” ― Yawar Baig
31. “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” ― Diane Ackerman
32. “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” ― Kay Redfield Jamison
33. “Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” ― Plato
34. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss
35. “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ― Stacia Tauscher
36. “Please excuse the mess. The children are making memories.” ― Every Preschool Teacher in the world
37. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein
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