One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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.

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.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

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.

A thought is an idea in transit.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.