It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.