Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

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.

There is no education but self-education.

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

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

The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books.

A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator