Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.