A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.