I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

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

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

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.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection