Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Education is the science of relations

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

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

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

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

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.