"Let their books be living books, the best that can be found in liberal supply and variety."

"It is a great thing to possess a pageant of history in the background of one's thoughts."

"Their Bible lessons should help them to realise in early days that the knowledge of God is the principal knowledge, and, therefore, that their Bible lessons are their chief lessons."

"Never be within doors when you can rightly be without."

"Composition is not an adjunct but an integral part of their education in every subject."

"Grammar, being a study of words and not of things, is by no means attractive to the child, nor should he be hurried into it."

"He practises various handicrafts that he may know the feel of wood, clay, leather, and the joy of handling tools, that is, that he may establish a due relation with materials."

"They come into the world with many relations waiting to be established; relations with places far and near, with the wide universe, with the past of history, with the the social economics of the present . . . "