“You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it.”

A charge to trust an unrepeatable personal voice · Teaching books, commonly cited

• Courage
• Individuality
• Writing

“The standardized curricular education requires results each day, each week, surely each month, with an accumulated measurable outcome at the end of each semester; creative education thinks in terms of years and even in spans of years.”

Measuring growth slowly rather than by weekly yield · Book, Creative Power

• Creativity
• Education
• Time

“Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.”

The teacher's task is to make room for what cannot be forced · Educational writing, commonly attributed

• Inspiration
• Teaching
• Writing