It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

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

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.

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

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

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

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.