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“Moments like these underline the importance of adults reserving their own personal judgments and accepting the child's wishes and actions. Awareness of potential schematic underpinnings also help us value and appreciate behaviors so that we can accept what the child may be showing us. Although firm conclusions can rarely be drawn, reflections remind us of the potentially multiple benefits of schematic actions for a child, and also the value in repetitive behaviors which tend to be labeled as negative. Educators should remain curious about a child's seeds of inquiry and make more such opportunities available to meet this need.”
― Cath Arnold, Schemas in the Early Years

“There is a secret about the scientific method which every scientist knows and takes as a matter of course, but which the layman does not know...The secret is this: Science cannot utter a single word about the individual molecule, thing, or creature in so far as it is an individual, but only in so far as it is like other individuals.”
― Walker Percy

“Since the subject I most wish to learn is the children, I must concentrate on this play, for they will teach me who they are by the fantasies they explore.”
― Vivian Gussin Paley

“If [the preschool teacher] is well read in theories of development and instruction, and well supplied with human empathy, the result can be a rare blend of science and humanism.”
― Michael Cole