We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

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 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 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.

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