Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.