If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
