The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. - John Lancaster Spalding

As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.

Let not what thou canst not prevent, though it be the ruin of thy home or country, draw thee from thy proper work.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.