Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
My weapon is literature
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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.