Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
My weapon is literature
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
