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

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

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.

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

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

The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.