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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Success, Children

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Thomas Huxley
Beautiful, Wise, Children
Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Thomas Huxley
Children, Eye, Hands
Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.

Thomas Huxley
Children, Lying, Names
Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.357, University of Georgia Press

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

Thomas Huxley
Education, Teacher, Children
Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

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