59. Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.—Plato.
60. Education begins its work with the first breath of life. —Jean Paul.
61. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.—Ballou.
62. Eet maar Brod, dann wardst du grôt. [Eat bread and you'll grow.]—Frisian.
63. Ein Kind, kein Kind, zwei Kind, Spielkind, drei Kind, viel Kind, vier Kind, ein ganzes Hausvoll Kinder. [One child, no child; two children, playing children; three children, many children; four children, a whole house full of children.]—German (with numerous variants).
64. Ein Laster kostet mehr als zwei Kinder. [One crime costs more than two children.]—German.
65. Es ist besser zehn Kinder gemacht, als ein einziges umgebracht. [It is better to have made ten children than to have destroyed one.]—German.
66. Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done.—Scotch.
67. Fools with bookish learning are children with edged tools; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.—Zimmermann.
68. Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen. [We never love the children of others so well as our own.]—Goethe.