Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
