Language Grows Out Of Life, Out Of

I Am Beginning To Suspect All Elaborate And Special Systems Of Education. They Seem To Me To Be Built Upon The Supposition That Every Child Is A Kind Of Idiot Who Must Be Taught To Think. Whereas If The Child Is Left To Himself, He Will Think More And Better , If Less "showily." Let Him Come And Go Freely, Let Him Touch Real Things And Combine His Impressions For Himself... Teaching Fills The Mind With Artificial Associations That Must Be Got Rid Of Before The Child Can Develop Independent Ideas Out Of Actual Experiences.

People Seldom See The Halting And Painful Steps By Which The Most Insignificant Success Is Achieved.

Every Renaissance Comes To The World With A Cry, The Cry Of The Human Spirit To Be Free.

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 Are Afraid Of Ideas, Of Experimenting, Of Change. We Shrink From Thinking A Problem Through To A Logical Conclusion.