Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.