Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

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

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

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

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

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.

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