Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

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.

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

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

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.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.