"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"The most important part of education is right training in the nursery."

"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but eternal and there she is at rest, and has escaped from the wanderings and follies of men, and is ever with the gods, as becomes her who is divi…"

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."