Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
