Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

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

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