Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

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.

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.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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.

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.