Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

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.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

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.

Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.