Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I cannot live without books.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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.
