Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

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

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.