In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.