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.

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

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.

The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books.

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.

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

Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without. No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind stuff. Both quantity and quality are essential.