A child miseducated is a child lost.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
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.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
