I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them

We have more coaches teaching at the school than we ever have. That's important because (coaches) need that school-day contact with the kids.