The Idle Man Does Not Know What

A Wise System Of Education Will At Last Teach Us How Little Man Yet Knows, How Much He Has Still To Learn.

Everyone Must Have Felt That A Cheerful Friend Is Like A Sunny Day, Which Sheds Its Brightness On All Around; And Most Of Us Can, As We Choose, Make Of This World Either A Palace Or A Prison.

Many Savage Nations Worship Trees, And I Really Think My First Feeling Would Be One Of Delight And Interest Rather Than Of Surprise, If Some Day When I Am Alone In The Woods One Of The Trees Were To Speak To Me.

Our Great Mistake In Education Is ... The Worship Of Book-learning-the Confusion Of Instruction And Education. We Strain The Memory Instead Of Cultivating The Mind. ... We Ought To Follow Exactly The Opposite Course With Children-to Give Them A Wholesome Variety Of Mental Food, And Endeavour To Cultivate Their Tastes, Rather Than To Fill Their Minds With Dry Facts.

What We See Depends Mainly On What We Look For.