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….

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….

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning ….

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction..

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

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little….

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine..

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kin….

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion..

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them..

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

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and ….

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher..

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine hi….

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind….

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