There’s nothing more important than a good education.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden… The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.