To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

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

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.

My weapon is literature

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.