Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
When you know better you do better.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.