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

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

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.

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.

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

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.