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.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
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.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
