"I want to found a school that shall help all classes of workers, artists, apprentices and homemakers, and I wish its courses conducted in such a way as to give every student practical skill along some definite line of work and at the same time reveal to him possibilities for further development and study."

"I want to found a school that shall give everybody a chance. That is, instead of having one type of examination for entrance to all its classes, that may rule out some earnest young men and women who may not have had an opportunity for an early education , we shall have, instead, if all kinds and grades of work with different entrance requirements; so that if one cannot enter on one level, he may on some other, and learning to do one thing well as an employment, he may also be influenced to climb to a higher level by earnest study and effort.