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

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

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.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

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.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.