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.

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!

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

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.

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.