"We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards"

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

"Adults are obsolete children"