"Before a nation can be formed, it is necessary that some language should be established." (Creative Teaching, p. 28)

"For it's here, right in the first word, that the love of reading is born, and the longer his reading is organic the stronger it becomes, until by the time he arrives at the books of the new culture, he receives them as another joy rather than as a labour." (Creative Teaching, p. 34)

"It is always not what is said but the freedom to say." (Creative Teaching, p. 54)

"Do the word experts who assemble these books assume that by putting peaceful books into the hands of children they will be an influence for peaceful living?" (Creative Teaching, p. 68)

"Dancing I place in the morning, output time, considering it as good a medium as any other, since Plato said it was the one complete expression involving the faculties on all levels...