Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
