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.

There is no education but self-education.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

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.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.