The smallest child could show us the way.
This incident impressed me more than anything I had heard in advance of the freedom of education in America.

It was a concrete proof--almost the thing itself.

One had to experience it to understand it.
It was a great disappointment to be told by my father that we were not to enter upon our school career at once.

It was too near the end of the term, he said, and we were going to move to Crescent Beach in a week or so.

We had to wait until the opening of the schools in September.