Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.