"The teacher's prime concern should be to..." - Quote by William James

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”

“The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.”

“I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.”

“The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.”

“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”

“I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.”

“Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.”

“Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.”