Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
A thought is an idea in transit.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
My weapon is literature
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
