Education is the science of relations

Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

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

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose.