A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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…