You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

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

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

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

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!

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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.