I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

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!

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

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

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.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

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