Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

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.

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

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.