Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

The world is run by C students.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.