If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. - John Lancaster Spalding

More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.