Courage, conviction and confidence.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
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.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
