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.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

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.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

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.

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

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.