The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day

by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

129. The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom. —Tennyson.

130. The best horse needs breeding and the aptest child needs teaching.—Arabic.

131. The boy's will is the wind's will.—Lapp.

132. The chief art is to make all that children have to do sport and play.—Locke.

133. The child says nothing but what he heard at the fireside. —Spanish.

134. The de'il's bairns hae the de'il's luck.—Scotch.

135. The heart is a child; it desires what it sees.—Turkish.

136. The heart of childhood is all mirth.—Keble.

137. The king is the strength of the weak; crying is the strength of children.—Sanskrit.

138. The right law of education is that you take the best pains with the best material.—Ruskin.