The World Would Be Better And Brighter

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

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.

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.

It Would Be A Great Thing If People Could Be Brought To Realize That They Can Never Add To The Sum Of Their Happiness By Doing Wrong.

How Little Our Libraries Cost Us As Compared With Our Liquor Cellars.