“should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice." The only way that power and strength can be developed… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“It is not what is read or what is remembered, but only what is understood, that gives power,” — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“If little labor, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.” — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“Education is an opportunity, nothing more. It will not guarantee success, or happiness, or contentment, or riches. Everything depends upon what development is produced… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“In this quest of knowledge ... there are two faults to be shunned—one, the taking of unknown things for known, and giving an assent… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“For the end of education and training is to help nature to her perfection in the complete development of all the various powers."—Richard Mulcaster,… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
