In this commingling, too, is preserved the most precious deposit of what the race has been and done, and of what the man has seen, felt, and known.

In the nature of things no educational material can be richer; none so fundamentally expansive and illuminative.
This contact with the richest personalities the world has produced is one of the deepest sources of culture; for nothing is more truly educative than association with persons of the highest intelligence and power.

When a man recalls his educational experience, he finds that many of his richest opportunities were not identified with subjects or systems or apparatus, but with teachers.

There is fundamental truth in Emerson's declaration that it makes very little difference what you study, but that it is in the highest degree important with whom you study.

There flows from the living teacher a power which no text-book can compass or contain,--the power of liberating the imagination and setting the student free to become an original investigator.