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.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

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.

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

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

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

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.