A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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.

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