The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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

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

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

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.