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.

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.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

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

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

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