If instead of making a child stick to his books I employ him in a workshop, his hands work for the development of his mind. While he fancies himself … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

İnsanları daha iyi tanımak, beni içine düşürdükleri acıları daha iyi duymaya yaradı; üstelik kurdukları tuzakları birer birer gördüğüm halde, düşmeme engel olamadı.

You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing, and that a child ill taught is further from virtue than a child who has learnt nothing at all. You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing. What! is it nothing to be happy, nothing to run and jump all day? He will never be so busy again all his life long.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.