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;
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
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.
WHEN I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith…
I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.
This, Books can do;- nor this alone, they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise,
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:
THERE are only two rules for a successful holiday; the first is to earn it, the second is to have just enough holiday to make the prospect of work pleasant.
