Yes, I am proud, and very humble too..

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties..

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even d….

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark..

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all t….

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything..

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about..

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child..

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work ….

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives..

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free..

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object..

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need..

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how the….

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful..

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite i….

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You ….

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief..

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments..

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved..