A witty saying proves nothing.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Industrialize or perish.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Know what you are talking about.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
My weapon is literature
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.