I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

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

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.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

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