Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

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

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

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . . Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity.