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 is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

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

We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

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

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Education is the science of relations