So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.