My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The knowledge of all things is possible
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Investigate, educate and organize.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
