The Three Agencies in Child Training (1909): “...the aim of each
should be the perfection of personality.”
The Association of Mind and Muscle (1918): “As knowledge becomes
a matter of action, it becomes a matter of purpose, ideal, and character.”
The Sound-Reproducing Machine as a Music Teacher (1919): “The taste of
the listener is on its way to better things.”
The School Teacher and the Republic (1920): “The nation cannot recognize
its obligation to the teacher too soon or too completely.”
Some Overlooked Compensations in Teaching (1920): “[The teaching
profession] places in the hands of those who choose it privileges which
many of the rich would gladly give their gold to obtain.”
Dollars Versus Sense (1921): “...preoccupation with material things.
Minds become cloyed; hearts grow dull; and souls grow no wings with which
to lift themselves above the mire and the clay.”
Education and Production (1921): “The accepted canon in educational
circles is that a man is not trained at all unless trained to be good for
something, and that he must prove his culture by bringing forth fruits
meet for it.”
The School as a Reform Agency (1921): “Whatever the future contains,
the school teacher holds the key to it.”