Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

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.

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

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

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

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.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.