May 19, 2023
After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the
feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years
which make people old; it is ruts, and a limitation of interests.
When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we
are then old, it matters not whether our years be twenty...
May 18, 2023
Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child,–the knowledge
of God, of man, and of the universe,–the knowledge of God ranks
first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.
May 4, 2023
But the educator has to deal with a self-acting, self-developing
being, and his business is to guide, and assist in, the production
of the latent good in that being, the dissipation of the latent
evil, the preparation of the child to take his place in the world
at his best…