If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Know what you are talking about.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Industrialize or perish.

When you know better you do better.

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

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Investigate, educate and organize.