To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.