Children have more need of models than of critics.

A child, who by severity is set on its defence or drawn into falsehood, is often melted into full confession by being loved and trusted more than it deserves.

punishments ought to be reformatory.   Not only must they never, by vindictiveness in him who gives, and degradation in him who receives, impair the instincts and resolves for a better life;

DISCIPLINE, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so, should be ever active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand.

The child sees what we are, behind what we wish to be…. This is why the first principle of education is: train yourself;  and the first rule to follow if you wish to possess yourself of a child’s will is: master your own. 

All transitions are dangerous;  and the most dangerous is the transition from the restraint of the family circle to the non-restraint of the world.

THE main duty of those who care for the young is to secure their wholesome, their entire growth;

We shall be agreed once more that the noblest fruit of education is character, and not acquirements:  

READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;  It is thinking makes what we read ours.