Matthew spends a lot of his time studying. 

He looks and inspects and ponders everything. 

He thrives off of understanding.

He finds pure enjoyment in discovery. 



Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928



Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes