“The creative school cares not how inept and slovenly a lad may be the whole term, if it sees something personal and fine taking slow possession of him.”

Patience with awkward beginnings if a personal voice is taking shape · Book, Creative Power

• Creativity
• Education
• Growth

“Self-expression itself, however, is not enough. There must be a movement forward and upward.”

Free utterance still needs direction and growth · Educational writing, as quoted in notices of his work

• Education
• Expression
• Growth

“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