Children take in much more and with less labour through their ears than through their eyes.

I always gave first place to building of character.

Children wrapped up in cotton wool are not always proof against all temptations or contaminations.

True education could be imparted only by the parents and that then there should be minimum of outside help.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by p…