The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.”
“I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.”