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

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

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

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

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

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.

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

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.