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 they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

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 of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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.

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 imagination.

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

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