Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.