Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.