Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

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 an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

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.

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