“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

“We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.”

“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”

“The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.”

“The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.”

“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”

“I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.”

“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”