That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

The wisest have the most authority.