“The old education set up an adult standard at every stage of growth. We are learning that the only standard which is effective for self-education is the one that is wholeheartedly accepted by the young people themselves.”

Standards work only when the learner claims them · Educational writing, as quoted in notices of his work

• Education
• Standards
• Youth

“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

“Whenever creative work with children flourishes I seek the one who has opened up communication with them on the side of their secret, unexpressed selves.”

The hidden self is where the work begins · Educational writing on creative teaching

• Children
• Creativity
• Teaching