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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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