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

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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

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

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

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.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.