Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
View quoteWe all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
View quoteYes, I am proud, and very humble too.
View quoteWe are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglect ...
View quoteIf the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come ...
View quoteThe truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridicu ...
View quoteLanguage grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828
View quoteYou can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
View quoteYou cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the t ...
View quoteToo often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to t ...
View quoteI never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for ...
View quoteLanguage grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolub ...
View quoteIs it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the Wo ...
View quoteWhy, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as ...
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