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

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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