THE SCHOOL (Page 29).
The highest task that life holds for men and women is the choosing of an ideal to grow toward. It should be sufficiently far away to require a whole lifetime to pursue it.
It has taken a hundred years of agony and study to prove even in advanced America a man's right to his own body; a woman's right to her old soul; and the child's right to the development of his mind as of his muscle.
I plead for the true perspective in the training of your children. I believe, of course, in good bodies, comfortable and beautiful clothing, generous houses, and all the learning of the schools; I believe in intellectual joy and all the powers of thought, but only when they are subordinated to high affections and strong wills.
There is a power at work in the world that estimates gifts, not by the amount, but by the purpose that dictated them.
The kindergarten contains the seed of the gospel for children in its terminology when it seeks to develop the child by its "occupations."...
WORK (Page 111).
There can be no development, mental, spiritual, or physical, except by exercise.
Through labor we became creators, co-workers with God. Labor can be transfigured into a habit.
In the scales of the universe, a day's work will always weigh more than the dollar that pays for that day's work.