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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

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

Industrialize or perish.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.