Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

But though I might fill the world with dragons I never had the slighest real doubt that heroes ought to fight with dragons. I must stop to challenge many child-lovers for cruelty to children. It is quite false to say that the child dislikes the fable because it is moral. Very often he likes the moral more than the fable. Adults are reading their own weary mockery into a mind still vigorous enough to be entirely serious.

It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.