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 cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

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

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

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 more help in that area.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

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

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.