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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

Industrialize or perish.