So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.