To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
