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

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

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

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

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.

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

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.