I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.
Education is the science of relations
To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.
Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. . . self-discipline with all of them came first.
Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.
I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.