Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.