No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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.

Industrialize or perish.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

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 secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Investigate, educate and organize.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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