Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

a problem well put is half solved.