When you know better you do better.

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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