Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.
每個孩子都應該玩泥餅、捉蚱蜢、玩水蟲、養蝌蚪、抓青蛙、玩泥龜、采接骨木果、摘野草莓、撿橡子、采栗子、爬樹、涉溪、賞睡蓮、觀察土撥鼠、蝙蝠、蜜蜂、蝴蝶,養各種小動物,在干草場玩耍,撿松果,滾石頭,玩沙子,抓蛇,采越橘和胡蜂窩;任何被剝奪了這些樂趣的孩子,都被剝奪了教育中最美好的部分。