I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.