I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

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.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

Industrialize or perish.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.