Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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.
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.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
