Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Industrialize or perish.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

A witty saying proves nothing.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.