The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
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.
