“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

“You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.”

Originality as a manner of saying rather than a new subject · Teaching books, commonly cited

• Originality
• Voice
• Writing

“Children are creative persons, not scholiasts; they use language as the artist the world over has used his medium, not as an end in itself but as a means for the expression of thought and feeling.”

Language as a tool of feeling rather than a school subject · Book, Creative Power

• Art
• Children
• Language