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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.