It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
Trust the student in a certain degree with himself. Suffer him in some instances to select his own course of reading. There is danger that there should be something to studied and monotonous in the selection we should make for him. Suffer him to wander through the wilds of literature.
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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