Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.