We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

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.

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

Education is the science of relations

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