The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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