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.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without 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.

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

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.