One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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.

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

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.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

When you know better you do better.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.