Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.