Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

Property is organized robbery.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.