Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

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

I cannot live without books.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

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.

Industrialize or perish.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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.