Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.