"Children respond to the environment. Their capacity to learn and what they learn depends on what the environment teaches...Instead of relying on the traditional environment that is rich in learning opportunities for the child, we can take the environment a step further and mold it into a purposeful "
"The miseducation of young children, so prevalent in the United States today, ignores well-founded and noncontroversial differences between early education and formal education. As educators, our first task is to reassert this difference and insist on its importance."