The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

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

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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

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

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.