We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

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.

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.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

May the New Year bring you new strength, new hope and new dreams.

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!