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.

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.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

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