Education Can Give You A Skill, But

The Genius Of Happiness Is Still So Rare. To Possess It Means To Approach Life With The Humility Of A Beggar, But To Treat It With The Proud Generosity Of A Prince; To Bring To Its Totality The Deep Understanding Of A Great Poet And To Each Of Its Moments The Abandonment And Ingenuousness Of A Child.

The Emancipation Of Women Is Practically The Greatest Egoistic Movement Of The Nineteenth Century, And The Most Intense Affirmation Of The Right Of The Self That History Has Yet Seen.

The Educator Must Above All Understand How To Wait; To Reckon All Effects In The Light Of The Future, Not Of The Present.

Formerly, A Nation That Broke The Peace, Did Not Trouble To Try And Prove To The World That It Was Done Solely From Higher Motives. ... Now War Has A Bad Conscience. Now Every Nation Assures Us That It Is Bleeding For A Human Cause, The Fate Of Which Hangs In The Balance Of Its Victory ... No Nation Dares To Admit The Guilt Of Blood Before The World.

The Socially Pernicious, Racially Wasteful, And Soul-withering Consequences Of The Working Of Mothers Outside The Home Must Cease. And This Can Only Come To Pass, Either Through The Programme Of Institutional Upbringing, Or Through The Intimate Renaissance Of The Home.