With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Investigate, educate and organize.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Industrialize or perish.
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.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
