"A good teacher does not draw out; he gives out, and what he gives out is love. And by love I mean approval, or if you…"

"A child is innately wise and realistic. If left to himself without adult suggestion of any kind, he will develop as f…"

"Hate breeds hate, and love breeds love."

"My own criterion of success is the ability to work joyfully and to live positively."

"You cannot make children learn music or anything else without to some degree converting them into will-less adults. Y…"

"No one has the right to make a boy learn Latin, because learning is a matter for individual choice; but if in a Latin…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Pri…"

"proposed as the chief gardener and William Brown as his assistant. Nelson had already 'sailed round the world in my s…"

"On 1 October 1918, when only sixteen, my father rode into Damascus with the , hours ahead of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence …"