The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Investigate, educate and organize.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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

My weapon is literature

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

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.