I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the question "1". After much reflection I put a bracket round it thus "(1)". But thereafter I could not think of anything connected with it that was either relevant or true.

The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

The goal of education is not the pursuit of knowledge for the glorification of the mind, but for the purification of the heart.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.