I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant…”

“Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to…”

“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.”