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.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
My weapon is literature
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
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.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
