Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.