People Seldom See The Halting And Painful

It Is A Rare Privilege To Watch The Birth, Growth, And First Feeble Struggles Of A Living Mind; This Privilege Is Mine.

Too Often, I Think, Children Are Required To Write Before They Have Anything To Say. Teach Them To Think And Read And Talk Without Self-repression, And They Will Write Because They Cannot Help It.

If The Child Is Left To Himself, He Will Think More And Better, If Less Showily. Let Him Go And Come Freely, Let Him Touch Real Things And Combine His Impressions For Himself.

It's A Great Mistake, I Think, To Put Children Off With Falsehoods And Nonsense, When Their Growing Powers Of Observation And Discrimination Excite In Them A Desire To Know About Things.

Yes, I Am Proud, And Very Humble Too.