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.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

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.

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 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.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.