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

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.

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

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

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

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.

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.