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One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.