Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.

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 an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

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

Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more.