Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
Alice Duer MillerIt is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
Alice Duer MillerConversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
Alice Duer Miller