We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

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

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

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.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.