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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

The highest result of education is tolerance.