Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“The true artist is the one who is disciplined.”

“I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.”

“First words must have an intense meaning for a child. They must be part of his being.”

“What a dangerous activity reading is; teaching is.”

“Pleasure first, not pressure. Never a correction, for what is a mistake in a story? The story is the thing.”

“You must be a person who is as willing to learn as to teach.”

“If you are not setting a puzzle, you are not teaching.”

“The whole of my life is a teaching-learning experience. And that’s the way I like it.”

“No other part of our private lives is so exposed to public scrutiny as is our teaching.”