The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.
It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
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