We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze. ☥

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

If you're built like a freight train, you can't drive around like a Volkswagen.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

Faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ will provide strength and capacity needed for a successful life.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.