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

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.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.