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.

Education is the science of relations

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator

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.

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