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• Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines…
• Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is…
• Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;…
• The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of…
• Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,…
• Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
• There is no education but self-education.
• None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,…
• In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them…
• We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so…
• The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
• Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

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