Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.