Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.