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I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.