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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men’s and women’s earnings for the same work.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.