The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Know what you are talking about.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.