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

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.

Education is the science of relations

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

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.

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