Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

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

“Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many poin…”

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

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They …”