Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
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
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
