Kindergarten+Quotes

Kindergarten/Early Childhood Education Quotes:

 • “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 Froebel

• “If we can make children love intellectual effort, we shall prolong habits of study beyond school years.” ~ Susan Blow

• "If three hundred years after my death my method of education shall be completely established according to its idea, I shall rejoice in heaven.” ~ Friedrich Froebel

• “The advantage to the community in utilizing the age from 4 to 6 in training the hand and eye; in developing the habits of cleanliness, politeness, self-control, urbanity, industry; in training the mind to understand numbers and geometric forms, to invent combinations of figures and shapes, and to represent them with the pencil—these and other valuable lessons… will, I think, ultimately prevail in securing to us the establishment of this beneficent institution in all the city school systems of our country.” ~ Elizabeth Peabody