Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

Art, that great undogmatized church.