In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Dare to think for yourself.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
