One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Know what you are talking about.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
When you know better you do better.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
My weapon is literature
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
