A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.