Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

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