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

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.

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!

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.

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

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