Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.