The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Industrialize or perish.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
