The instructor... does not profess to teach philosophy, but to philosophise. - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity — the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself.

The one condition under which all powers, and consequently the intellectual faculties, are developed, is exercise.

On this ground I would rest one of the pre-eminent utilities of mental philosophy. That it comprehends all the sublimest objects of our theoretical and moral interest; that every (natural) conclusion concerning God, the soul, the present worth and the future destiny of man, is exclusively deduced from the philosophy of mind, will be at once admitted.