In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.