"A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born." ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Topic(s): Education More From Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Amen of nature is always a flower." "Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left." "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." More In Education "I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them."― Nina Bawden "Education enables people and societies to be what they can be."― Bill Richardson "Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of."― Sarah Orne Jewett