The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again..

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another..

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, a….

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true….

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of cu….

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains..

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction..

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..

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..

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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