Samuel Smiles Quotes about School

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The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Samuel Smiles

Home, School, Discipline

Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

Wisdom, Real, School

Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

Samuel Smiles

Home, School, Character

Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.31